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grammatical errors fix from PR#4409

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fair 1997-11-05 18:46:07 +00:00
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usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: pwd_mkdb.8,v 1.8 1997/10/17 12:18:16 lukem Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: pwd_mkdb.8,v 1.9 1997/11/05 18:46:07 fair Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ to
.El
.Pp
The two databases differ in that the secure version contains the user's
encrypted password and the insecure version has an asterisk (``*'')
encrypted password and the insecure version has an asterisk (``*'').
.Pp
The databases are used by the C library password routines (see
.Xr getpwent 3 ) .
@ -111,15 +111,13 @@ There are the obvious races with multiple people running
.Nm
on different password files at the same time.
The front-ends to
.Nm "" ,
.Xr chpass 1 ,
.Xr passwd 1
.Xr passwd 1 ,
and
.Xr vipw 8 ,
.Xr vipw 8
handle the locking necessary to avoid this problem.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the system had a program similar to
.Nm "" ,
.Xr mkpasswd 8 ,
which built
.Xr dbm 3