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<refentry id= "systemd-ask-password-console.service" >
<refentryinfo >
<title > systemd-ask-password-console.service</title>
<productname > systemd</productname>
<authorgroup >
<author >
<contrib > Developer</contrib>
<firstname > Lennart</firstname>
<surname > Poettering</surname>
<email > lennart@poettering.net</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta >
<refentrytitle > systemd-ask-password-console.service</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum > 8</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv >
<refname > systemd-ask-password-console.service</refname>
<refname > systemd-ask-password-console.path</refname>
<refname > systemd-ask-password-wall.service</refname>
<refname > systemd-ask-password-wall.path</refname>
<refpurpose > Query the user for system passwords on the
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console and via wall</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv >
<para > <filename > systemd-ask-password-console.service</filename> </para>
<para > <filename > systemd-ask-password-console.path</filename> </para>
<para > <filename > systemd-ask-password-wall.service</filename> </para>
<para > <filename > systemd-ask-password-wall.path</filename> </para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1 >
<title > Description</title>
<para > <filename > systemd-ask-password-console.service</filename>
is a system service that queries the user for system
passwords (such as hard disk encryption keys and SSL
certificate passphrases) on the console. It is
intended to be used during boot to ensure proper
handling of passwords necessary for
boot. <filename > systemd-ask-password-wall.service</filename>
is a system service that informs all logged in users
for system passwords via
<citerefentry > <refentrytitle > wall</refentrytitle> <manvolnum > 1</manvolnum> </citerefentry> . It
is intended to be used after boot to ensure that users
are properly notified.</para>
<para > See the <ulink
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents">
developer documentation</ulink> for more information
about the system password logic.</para>
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<para > Note that these services invoke
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<citerefentry > <refentrytitle > systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</refentrytitle> <manvolnum > 1</manvolnum> </citerefentry>
Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd.
So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became
baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before
in my English-mother-tongue life.
Some quick Googling turned up a reference:
<http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html>
I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but
English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used
exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g.
"the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-,
respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence
"Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and
sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker.
This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and
replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully,
grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing
"resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably
just do in the future.
The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I
don't feel privileged to correct.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
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with either the <command > --watch --console</command>
or <command > --watch --wall</command> command line
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parameters.</para>
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</refsect1>
<refsect1 >
<title > See Also</title>
<para >
<citerefentry > <refentrytitle > systemd</refentrytitle> <manvolnum > 1</manvolnum> </citerefentry> ,
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<citerefentry > <refentrytitle > systemd-tty-ask-password-agent</refentrytitle> <manvolnum > 1</manvolnum> </citerefentry> ,
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<citerefentry > <refentrytitle > wall</refentrytitle> <manvolnum > 1</manvolnum> </citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
