In regard to the missing man page for smauth, after I posted the
SUMMARY there were several more responses. In particular I'd like to
mention
Dr. Thomas.Blinn_at_Compaq.com <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com> response pointing
out /usr/sbin/smauthd is a shell script; one can glean some data about
smauthd by looking at it.
Colin Walters (of Tru64 UNIX Publications Group, System Administration Documentation)
<walters_at_zk3.dec.com> has the score though:
The source HTML help page for SysMan Station (and other SysMan
features) is at:
/usr/share/sysman/web/suitlet_help/html/en_US.ISO8859-1/sms.html
Information about the daemon is in that page. There is
not very much information as smauthd is considered to
be an essential system daemon, rather than a user-level
daemon. The only thing you can do is start it, stop
it, or remove it from the initialization files.
(Note that many such daemons do not have reference pages.)
Mr. Walters states the reason there is no man page is:
Because the SySman tools are designed to run from different
user environments (term, CDE, XDM, Linux, Mac, PC), there
are dependencies on the online information. A manpage
cannot be displayed on a Windows 2000 PC.
Therefore the SysMan information is online-only and in HTML,
text and X11 formats. There is information on smauthd in that
help.
Thank you both,
Aleksey Tsalolikhin
UNIX System Administrator
Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 16:51:02 NZDT