[patch] Typos, grammar, formatting in openssh-portable master

Andrew Darqui andrew.darqui at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 15:17:42 AEST 2017


Hi everyone. Nothing special, just a few typo fixes.

Also, there's a typo on this page: https://www.openssh.com/list.html
s/approriate/appropriate

Thanks



diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 92106bf0..bfaad6c9 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ OpenSSL 1.1.x is not currently supported.

 The remaining items are optional.

-NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure
+NB. If your operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure
 libcrypto (LibreSSL/OpenSSL) to use it. OpenSSH relies on libcrypto's
-direct support of /dev/random, or failing that, either prngd or egd
+direct support of /dev/random, or failing that, either prngd or egd.

 PRNGD:

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ http://egd.sourceforge.net/
 PAM:

 OpenSSH can utilise Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) if your
-system supports it. PAM is standard most Linux distributions, Solaris,
+system supports it. PAM is standard in most Linux distributions, Solaris,
 HP-UX 11, AIX >= 5.2, FreeBSD and NetBSD.

 Information about the various PAM implementations are available:
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

 Basic Security Module (BSM):

-Native BSM support is know to exist in Solaris from at least 2.5.1,
+Native BSM support is known to exist in Solaris from at least 2.5.1,
 FreeBSD 6.1 and OS X.  Alternatively, you may use the OpenBSM
 implementation (http://www.openbsm.org).

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ it if lastlog is installed in a different place.
 --without-lastlog will disable lastlog support entirely.

 --with-osfsia, --without-osfsia will enable or disable OSF1's Security
-Integration Architecture.  The default for OSF1 machines is enable.
+Integration Architecture.  The default for OSF1 machines is enabled.

 --with-skey=PATH will enable S/Key one time password support. You will
 need the S/Key libraries and header files installed for this to work.
@@ -201,13 +201,12 @@ started by sshd. This replaces the standard path
entirely.
 --with-pid-dir=PATH specifies the directory in which the sshd.pid file is
 created.

---with-xauth=PATH specifies the location of the xauth binary
+--with-xauth=PATH specifies the location of the xauth binary.

 --with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your Libre/OpenSSL
-libraries
-are installed.
+libraries are installed.

---with-ssl-engine enables Libre/OpenSSL's (hardware) ENGINE support
+--with-ssl-engine enables Libre/OpenSSL's (hardware) ENGINE support.

 --with-4in6 Check for IPv4 in IPv6 mapped addresses and convert them to
 real (AF_INET) IPv4 addresses. Works around some quirks on Linux.


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