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commit 473b4af43db12127137c7fc1a10928313f5a16d2
Author: djm at openbsd.org <djm at openbsd.org>
Date:   Mon Jun 22 05:53:26 2020 +0000

    upstream: better terminology for permissions; feedback & ok markus@
    
    OpenBSD-Commit-ID: ff2a71803b5ea57b83cc3fa9b3be42b70e462fb9
---
 sftp-server.8 | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sftp-server.8 b/sftp-server.8
index 4a55dab2..823a99f2 100644
--- a/sftp-server.8
+++ b/sftp-server.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sftp-server.8,v 1.28 2019/11/30 07:07:59 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sftp-server.8,v 1.29 2020/06/22 05:53:26 djm Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Markus Friedl.  All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 30 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 22 2020 $
 .Dt SFTP-SERVER 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
 .Op Fl d Ar start_directory
 .Op Fl f Ar log_facility
 .Op Fl l Ar log_level
-.Op Fl P Ar blacklisted_requests
-.Op Fl p Ar whitelisted_requests
+.Op Fl P Ar denied_requests
+.Op Fl p Ar allowed_requests
 .Op Fl u Ar umask
 .Ek
 .Nm
@@ -99,20 +99,20 @@ performs on behalf of the client.
 DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent.
 DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output.
 The default is ERROR.
-.It Fl P Ar blacklisted_requests
+.It Fl P Ar denied_requests
 Specify a comma-separated list of SFTP protocol requests that are banned by
 the server.
 .Nm
-will reply to any blacklisted request with a failure.
+will reply to any denied request with a failure.
 The
 .Fl Q
 flag can be used to determine the supported request types.
-If both a blacklist and a whitelist are specified, then the blacklist is
-applied before the whitelist.
-.It Fl p Ar whitelisted_requests
+If both denied and allowed lists are specified, then the denied list is
+applied before the allowed list.
+.It Fl p Ar allowed_requests
 Specify a comma-separated list of SFTP protocol requests that are permitted
 by the server.
-All request types that are not on the whitelist will be logged and replied
+All request types that are not on the allowed will be logged and replied
 to with a failure message.
 .Pp
 Care must be taken when using this feature to ensure that requests made
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Query protocol features supported by
 .Nm .
 At present the only feature that may be queried is
 .Dq requests ,
-which may be used for black or whitelisting (flags
+which may be used to deny or allow specific requests (flags
 .Fl P
 and
 .Fl p

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