diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml index 754d37e1a6..5360950a80 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Synopsis FreeBSD allows multiple users to use the computer at the same time. - Obviously, only one of those users can be sat in front of the screen and + Obviously, only one of those users can be sitting in front of the screen and keyboard at any one time Well, unless you hook up multiple terminals, but we'll @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ The UID is a number from 0 to 65536 used to uniquely identify - the user to the system. Internally FreeBSD uses the UID to + the user to the system. Internally, FreeBSD uses the UID to identify users—any FreeBSD commands that allow you to specify a user name will convert it to the UID before working with it. This means that you can have several accounts with different @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ creating accounts that you know have a limited lifespan, for example, in a school where you have accounts for the students, then you can specify when the account expires. After the expiry - time has elapsed the account can not be used to log in to the + time has elapsed the account cannot be used to log in to the system, although the account's directories and files will remain. @@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ system in which the user will start when logging on to the system. A common convention is to put all user home directories under - /home/username. + /home/username + or /usr/home/username. The user would store their personal files in their home directory, and any directories they may create in there. @@ -243,8 +244,8 @@ mean irreparable data loss. So, the first thing you should do after reading this - chapter, is to create an unprivileged user account for yourself - for general usage, if you have not already. This applies equally + chapter is to create an unprivileged user account for yourself + for general usage if you have not already. This applies equally whether you are running a multi-user or single-user machine. Later in this chapter, we discuss how to create additional accounts, and how to change between the normal user and @@ -379,7 +380,7 @@ adding new users. It creates entries in the system passwd and group files. It will also create a home directory for the new user, - copy in the default configuration files ("dotfiles") from + copy in the default configuration files (dotfiles) from /usr/share/skel, and can optionally mail the new user a welcome message. @@ -612,7 +613,7 @@ Other information: ypchfn, and ypchsh. NIS support is automatic, so specifying the yp before the command is - not necessary. If this is confusing to you, don't worry, NIS will + not necessary. If this is confusing to you, do not worry, NIS will be covered in @@ -728,7 +729,7 @@ passwd: done pair, where name is a well-known identifier and value is an arbitrary string processed accordingly depending on the name. Setting up login - classes and capabilities is rather straight-forward, and is also + classes and capabilities is rather straight-forward and is also described in &man.login.conf.5;. Resource limits are different from plain vanilla login @@ -843,8 +844,9 @@ passwd: done This is the maximum amount a memory a process may have requested to be locked into main memory (e.g., see &man.mlock.2;). Some system-critical programs, such as - &man.amd.8;, do this so that their getting swapped out does not - contribute to a system's thrashing in time of trouble. + &man.amd.8;, lock into main memory such that in the event + of being swapped out, they do not contribute to + a system's trashing in time of trouble.