Re: Spelling mistake in "chage" usage message

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Gidday Alexander,

This page belongs to another project. To report the bug in (what I
hope is) the right place, see
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/chage.1.html#COLOPHON

Thanks,

Michael

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 23:58, Alexander Priestley
<Alexander.Priestley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Apologies if this is the wrong place to raise this (admittedly minor) issue.
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> Spelling mistake in "chage" usage message
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> Example from RHEL 7.5 system:
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> $ chage -M
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> chage: option requires an argument -- 'M'
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> Usage: chage [options] LOGIN
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> Options:
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>   -d, --lastday LAST_DAY        set date of last password change to LAST_DAY
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>   -E, --expiredate EXPIRE_DATE  set account expiration date to EXPIRE_DATE
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>   -h, --help                    display this help message and exit
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>   -I, --inactive INACTIVE       set password inactive after expiration
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>                                 to INACTIVE
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>   -l, --list                    show account aging information
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>   -m, --mindays MIN_DAYS        set minimum number of days before password
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>                                 change to MIN_DAYS
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>   -M, --maxdays MAX_DAYS        set maximim number of days before password
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>                                 change to MAX_DAYS
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>   -R, --root CHROOT_DIR         directory to chroot into
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>   -W, --warndays WARN_DAYS      set expiration warning days to WARN_DAYS
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> Word “maximum” incorrectly spelt as “maximum” in line for –M option.
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> chage appears to be included in: shadow-utils-4.1.5.1-24.el7.x86_64 on this server.
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> Same issue appears on RHEL 7.3 server also.
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> Cheers,
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> Alexander Priestley | Systems Engineer
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