Module Name: src
Committed By: spz
Date: Tue May 28 20:13:17 UTC 2013
Modified Files:
src/usr.sbin/sup/source: supservers.8
Log Message:
document the anon account for anonymous access
fixing PR misc/5545
(the last bits thereof)
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.10 -r1.11 src/usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8
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Index: src/usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8
diff -u src/usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8:1.10 src/usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8:1.11
--- src/usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8:1.10 Mon Nov 2 00:33:34 2009
+++ src/usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8 Tue May 28 20:13:16 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: supservers.8,v 1.10 2009/11/02 00:33:34 joerg Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: supservers.8,v 1.11 2013/05/28 20:13:16 spz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Carnegie Mellon University
.\" All Rights Reserved.
@@ -116,6 +116,13 @@ the server will listen for a network con
This is useful for debugging the servers in "live" mode rather than as
daemons.
+If anonymous serving of files is desired, an account
+.I anon
+needs to exist.
+This account should have /sbin/nologin as shell, no password, needs to be
+able to read the files to be served (but not to write or to own them), and
+should have as home the directory containing the files to be served.
+
For debugging purposes, the -P "debugging ports" flag can be used.
It will cause the selection of an alternate, non-privileged set of
TCP ports instead of the usual ports, which are reserved for the
