[Bug 860] New: User & Group names ... various problems

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The section on User and group names need some sgml tag cleanup.

It uses the undefined (though well understood) abbreviations UID and GID (POSIX
defines User Id and Group ID).

It calls out various NIS interfaces that are not in the LSB.

It says "The location of the users home directory is also not defined by policy
other than the recommendations of the FHS and shall be obtained by the *pwnam(3)
calls." Firstly, it is the getpw* routines, not the *pwnam ones! Second, how is
anyone going to test this assertion?

I propose to rewrite this last sentence as:
"The location of the users home directory is also not defined by policy other
than the recommendations of Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and should be obtained
by the getpwnam(), getpwnam_r(), getpwent(), getpwuid(), and getpwuid_r()
functions."   
 
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