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Bug 52681 bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/[email protected] 1 participant 2 messages Jan 14, 2013 – Jan 21, 2013 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52681

Summary: getspnam errno values
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Regression: No

man getspnam, section ERRORS only mentions ERANGE.

If I cannot access /etc/shadow, EACCESS is returned.

Shouldn't EACCESS be mentioned on the man page?

kubuntu 12.10, kernel 3.5.0-21

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[Bug 52681] getspnam errno values

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52681

Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> 2013-01-21 23:24:41 --- Thanks. I've added EACCES under errors.

man3/getspnam.3 +3 -0
@@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ The reentrant functions return zero on success.
 In case of error, an error number is returned.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
+.B EACCES
+The caller does not have permission to access the shadow password file.
+.TP
 .B ERANGE
 Supplied buffer is too small.
 .SH FILES
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