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[src/trunk]: src/usr.sbin/sup/source document the anon account for anonymous ...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/3d6a66b07ca0
branches:  trunk
changeset: 786998:3d6a66b07ca0
user:      spz <spz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue May 28 20:13:16 2013 +0000

description:
document the anon account for anonymous access
fixing PR misc/5545
(the last bits thereof)

diffstat:

 usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8 |  9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (23 lines):

diff -r 3136c14774b6 -r 3d6a66b07ca0 usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8
--- a/usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8  Tue May 28 19:10:16 2013 +0000
+++ b/usr.sbin/sup/source/supservers.8  Tue May 28 20:13:16 2013 +0000
@@ -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 @@
 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



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