Re: documentation improvement request : mention the requirement for the /etc/shells file for proper user authentication

Collin Funk <[email protected]> Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:59:36 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Simon,

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes:

> Collin Funk <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Yep, that can be helpful. glibc does something like that [1].
>> [1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/
>
> Do you know which scripts generated that?  I think gnulib's gendocs.sh
> should support that approach.  

It is done by hand currently. The goal is to change that eventually,
though [1].

Since I don't make releases for any projects, I know next to nothing
about gendocs.sh.

Collin

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33434#c15