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authorOndrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>2014-04-08 09:48:42 +0200
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2014-04-23 11:55:09 +0200
commitcab7fa0338d269751766e7c4cff657c2247b1734 (patch)
treea7d94b376c02e4fdfb23c8119ee75041c8fca6e2
parent2ec0cd2f152319c438fce1082521db90d44dfa2e (diff)
downloadutil-linux-cab7fa0338d269751766e7c4cff657c2247b1734.tar.gz
su: fix minor typos in the man page
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--login-utils/su.120
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/su.1 b/login-utils/su.1
index 55c0b8bac..723ba1545 100644
--- a/login-utils/su.1
+++ b/login-utils/su.1
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ This version of
uses PAM for authentication, account and session management. Some
configuration options found in other
.B su
-implementations, such as support of a wheel group, have to be
+implementations, such as support for a wheel group, have to be
configured via PAM.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
@@ -61,18 +61,18 @@ Pass
to the shell, which may or may not be useful, depending on the shell.
.TP
\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group\fR=\fIgroup\fR\fR
-Specify the primary group. This option is available for the root user only.
+Specify the primary group. This option is available to the root user only.
.TP
\fB\-G\fR, \fB\-\-supp-group\fR=\fIgroup\fR\fR
-Specify a supplemental group. This option is available for the root user only.
+Specify a supplemental group. This option is available to the root user only.
.TP
\fB\-\fR, \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-login\fR
-Starts the shell as login shell with an environment similar to a real
+Starts the shell as a login shell with an environment similar to a real
login:
.RS 10
.TP
o
-clears all environment variables except
+clears all the environment variables except
.B TERM
.TP
o
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ in order to make the shell a login shell
.RE
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-preserve-environment\fR
-Preserves the whole environment, i.e. it does not set
+Preserves the entire environment, i.e. it does not set
.BR HOME ,
.BR SHELL ,
.B USER
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ for
.B FAIL_DELAY
(number)
.RS 4
-Delay in seconds in case of authentication failure. Number must be
+Delay in seconds in case of an authentication failure. The number must be
a non-negative integer.
.RE
.PP
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Generic error before executing the requested command
The requested command could not be executed
.TP
127
-The requested command could was not found
+The requested command was not found
.RE
.SH FILES
.PD 0
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ the lastlog file at all. This solution allows to control
.B su
behavior by PAM configuration. If you want to use the pam_lastlog module to
print warning message about failed log-in attempts then the pam_lastlog has to
-be configured to update lastlog file too. For example by:
+be configured to update the lastlog file as well. For example by:
.RS
.br
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ session required pam_lastlog.so nowtmp
.BR shells (5),
.BR login.defs (5)
.SH AUTHOR
-Derived from coreutils' su which was based on an implementation from
+Derived from coreutils' su which was based on an implementation by
David MacKenzie.
.SH AVAILABILITY
The su command is part of the util-linux package and is