X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd-ask-password.xml;h=805827efc30ae6e5a92e098fe6d291ee5ac0a460;hp=50aec3403ae4dcbf70ba0f99455007d5a6e9d382;hb=dfdebb1b925332352966804303b2516a6506a429;hpb=7f434cf4c9a72c3291a8603a3e91dd66dde4d640 diff --git a/man/systemd-ask-password.xml b/man/systemd-ask-password.xml index 50aec3403..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 - 3min. + 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.