[Bug 3223] Issues in openssh manpages

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Sun Oct 25 20:25:37 AEDT 2020


https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3223

Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> ---
(In reply to Helge Kreutzmann from comment #0)
[...]
> Man page: sftp.1
> Issue: Broken wrapping, everything before "Display" belongs to the
> command

This does not exist upstream.  The formatted version of the upstream
man page looks like

```
     df [-hi] [path]
             Display usage information for the 
```

The same applies to the following three items.

> Man page: sftp.1
> Issue: Is this missing a dash?

No.

> "OpenSSH secure file transfer"
> --
> Man page: ssh-agent.1
> Issue: eg → e.g.
> 
> "There are two main ways to get an agent set up: The first is that
> the agent "
> "starts a new subcommand into which some environment variables are
> exported, "
> "eg E<.Cm ssh-agent xterm &>.

This text does not exist in OpenSSH's man page:

```
     There are two main ways to get an agent set up.  The first is at
the
     start of an X session, where all other windows or programs are
started as
     children of the ssh-agent program.  The agent starts a command
under
     which its environment variables are exported, for example
ssh-agent xterm
     &.  When the command terminates, so does the agent.
```

> --
> Man page: ssh-agent.1
> Issue: ssh-agent. → E<.Nm>
> 
> "In Debian, E<.Nm> is installed with the set-group-id bit set, to
> prevent E<."

This text also does not exist in the upstream text and looks like a
Debian modification.

> Man page: ssh-agent.1
> Issue: ssh(1) does not have a section caveats

err, OK.  So?

> Man page: ssh-keygen.1
> Issue: private keys → prvivate key?

Definitely no.

> Man page: ssh-keygen.1
> Issue: safety → security?
> 
> "Test DH group exchange candidate primes (generated using the E<.Fl
> G> "
> "option) for safety."

No.  Safe primes are a specific concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_and_Sophie_Germain_primes

> --
> Man page: ssh-keygen.1
> Issue: 2011). → 2011),

Yes.

> Man page: ssh-keygen.1
> Issue: By default, the validity of certificates starts with the
> E<.Ux> Epoch and is unlimited.

the capitalization?  probably yes.

> --
> Man page: ssh-keygen.1
> Issue: See → see

Yes.

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