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Fix users.rst #42

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[users] Fix spell of arbitrary
etanot Jul 9, 2021
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[users] Capitalize first character of the sentence
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[users] Fix formatting issue with passwd table
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[users] Remove period present after colon punctuation
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Expand Up @@ -53,29 +53,27 @@ text file (this means you can view the information by using *cat* command.)
tss:x:59:59:Account used by the trousers package to sandbox the tcsd daemon:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin


Each line has seven entries separated by *:*.

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This is missing the vital : part, which is the separator.

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For Sphinx below two things are same:

Each line has seven entries separated by::

Each line has seven entries separated by:

::

When we generate output, Sphinx will automatically expands ending ::, with : followed by a :: code-directive, see below screenshot. In output, we're still getting a : at the end of sentence.

users


username:password:uid:gid:gecos:/home/dirname:shell

+---------------+---------------------------------+
| FIELD | MEANING |
+===============+=================================+
| username | the username |
| username | The username |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
| password | the password of the user |
| password | The password of the user |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
| uid | Numeric user id |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
| gid | Numeric group id of user |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
| gecos | arbitary field |
| gecos | Arbitrary field |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
| /home/dirname | Home directory of the user |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
| shell | Which shell to use for the user |
+--------------+----------------------------------+
+---------------+---------------------------------+

You’ll see accounts with */sbin/nologin* as their shell. These are generally
accounts for various services, which are not supposed to be used by a normal
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