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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=131504
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diff --git a/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_secure.3 b/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_secure.3
index 559cb6bd136e..07c6314c9402 100644
--- a/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_secure.3
+++ b/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_secure.3
@@ -39,9 +39,11 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
These routines are part of the
.Tn RPC
-library. They implement
+library.
+They implement
.Tn DES
-Authentication. See
+Authentication.
+See
.Xr rpc 3
for further details about
.Tn RPC .
@@ -81,14 +83,16 @@ derived from the utility routine
but could also represent a user name using
.Fn user2netname .
The second field is window on the validity of
-the client credential, given in seconds. A small
+the client credential, given in seconds.
+A small
window is more secure than a large one, but choosing
too small of a window will increase the frequency of
resynchronizations because of clock drift.
The third
argument
.Fa addr
-is optional. If it is
+is optional.
+If it is
.Dv NULL ,
then the authentication system will assume
that the local clock is always in sync with the server's
@@ -104,7 +108,8 @@ address of the
server itself.
The final argument
.Fa ckey
-is also optional. If it is
+is also optional.
+If it is
.Dv NULL ,
then the authentication system will
generate a random
@@ -184,7 +189,8 @@ takes a server netname and a
.Tn DES
key, and decrypts the key by
using the public key of the server and the secret key
-associated with the effective uid of the calling process. It
+associated with the effective uid of the calling process.
+It
is the inverse of
.Fn key_encryptsession .
.Pp
@@ -195,7 +201,8 @@ is a keyserver interface routine.
It
takes a server netname and a des key, and encrypts
it using the public key of the server and the secret key
-associated with the effective uid of the calling process. It
+associated with the effective uid of the calling process.
+It
is the inverse of
.Fn key_decryptsession .
.Pp
@@ -230,7 +237,8 @@ Returns
.Dv TRUE
if it succeeds and
.Dv FALSE
-if it fails. Inverse of
+if it fails.
+Inverse of
.Fn host2netname .
.Pp
The