Fixes from Openwall patch shadow-4.0.4.1-alt-man.diff:

* man/useradd.8.xml: Indicate that the NIS caveats is also valid
   for any external database as LDAP.
 * man/groupadd.8.xml: Likewise.
 * man/groupadd.8.xml: Reorder and reformat the caveats bullets.
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2007-11-17 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Fixes from Openwall patch shadow-4.0.4.1-alt-man.diff:
* man/useradd.8.xml: Indicate that the NIS caveats is also valid
for any external database as LDAP.
* man/groupadd.8.xml: Likewise.
* man/groupadd.8.xml: Reorder and reformat the caveats bullets.
2007-11-17 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
* NEWS: Applied Debian patch 409_man_generate_from_PO to
automatically generate the translated manpages from the POs.
* man/Makefile.am: Replace the individual rules for the generation
of the manpages (from XML) by a generic Makefile rule an
dependencies for the linked manpages.
2007-11-17 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
* man/chpasswd.8.xml: Document that chpasswd does not use PAM to

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<refsect1 id='caveats'>
<title>CAVEATS</title>
<para>Groupnames must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, and
only lower case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs may
follow. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]
<para>
Groupnames must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore,
and only lower case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs
may follow. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]
</para>
<para>
If the groupname already exists in an external group database
such as NIS, <command>groupadd</command> will deny the group
Groupnames may only be up to 16 characters long.
</para>
<para>
You may not add a NIS or LDAP group. This must be performed on the
corresponding server.
</para>
<para>
If the groupname already exists in an external group database such
as NIS or LDAP, <command>groupadd</command> will deny the group
creation request.
</para>
<para>Groupnames may only be up to 16 characters long.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='exit_values'>

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<refsect1 id='caveats'>
<title>CAVEATS</title>
<para>
You may not add a user to a NIS group. This must be performed on the
NIS server.
You may not add a user to a NIS or LDAP group. This must be
performed on the corresponding server.
</para>
<para>
Similarly, if the username already exists in an external user
database such as NIS, <command>useradd</command> will deny
database such as NIS or LDAP, <command>useradd</command> will deny
the user account creation request.
</para>