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diff --git a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
index 6d142230d..805827efc 100644
--- a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml
@@ -8,20 +8,21 @@
Copyright 2011 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with systemd; If not, see .
-->
-
+systemd-ask-password
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@
used to query a system password or passphrase from the
user, using a question message specified on the
command line. When run from a TTY it will query a
- password on the TTY and print it to STDOUT. When run
+ password on the TTY and print it to standard output. When run
with no TTY or with it will
query the password system-wide and allow active users
to respond via several agents. The latter is
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents">systemd
Password Agent Specification.
- If a password is queried on a tty the user may
+ If a password is queried on a TTY, the user may
press TAB to hide the asterisks normally shown for
each character typed. Pressing Backspace as first key
achieves the same effect.
@@ -103,19 +104,11 @@
The following options are understood:
-
-
-
-
- Prints a short help
- text and exits.
-
-
Specify an icon name
- alongside the pasword query, which may
+ alongside the password query, which may
be used in all agents supporting
graphical display. The icon name
should follow the Specify the query
timeout in seconds. Defaults to
- 90s.
+ 90s. A timeout of 0 waits indefinitely.
+
@@ -144,7 +138,7 @@
- If passed accept
+ If passed, accept
cached passwords, i.e. passwords
previously typed in.
@@ -159,6 +153,8 @@
output one password per
line.
+
+
@@ -166,7 +162,7 @@
Exit status
- On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
+ On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
code otherwise.