ports/67859: Language cleanups in tlsmgr.8 (part of postfix)
Chris Pepper
pepper at reppep.com
Sat Jun 12 03:11:17 UTC 2004
>Number: 67859
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Language cleanups in tlsmgr.8 (part of postfix)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 12 03:10:22 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chris Pepper
>Release: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #15: Sun May 30 22:18:46 EDT 2004 root at www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP i386
>Description:
Postfix's tlsmgr man page has some awkward and incorrect English.
>How-To-Repeat:
portinstall postfix; man tlsmgr
>Fix:
Patch below
--- tlsmgr.8.diff begins here ---
--- tlsmgr.8 Wed Jun 9 23:36:12 2004
+++ tlsmgr.8.fixed Fri Jun 11 22:33:44 2004
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
OpenSSL PRNG has a pool size of 8192 bits (= 1024 bytes). The pool
is initially seeded at startup from an external source (EGD or
/dev/urandom) and additional seed is obtained later during program
-run at a configurable period. The exact time of seed query is
-using random information and is equally distributed in the range of
-[0-\fBtls_random_reseed_period\fR] with a \fBtls_random_reseed_period\fR
+run at a configurable interval. The exact time of each successive seed
+query is randomly distributed in the range of
+[0-\fBtls_random_reseed_period\fR] with \fBtls_random_reseed_period\fR
having a default of 1 hour.
Tlsmgr can be run chrooted and with dropped privileges, as it will
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
.ad
.fi
Tlsmgr is not security-sensitive. It only deals with external data
-to be fed into the PRNG, the contents is never trusted. The session
+to be fed into the PRNG; its content is never trusted. The session
cache housekeeping will only remove entries if expired and will never
touch the contents of the cached data.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
--- tlsmgr.8.diff ends here ---
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