From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:44:09 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Document how a leading comma changes the gid parsing.
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Document how a leading comma changes the gid parsing.
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diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo
index 3076a492..c041cf93 100644
--- a/rsyncd.conf.yo
+++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo
@@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ supplementary groups.  The default for a non-super-user is to not change any
 group attributes (and indeed, your OS may not allow a non-super-user to try to
 change their group settings).
 
+The specified list is normally split into tokens based on spaces and commas.
+However, if the list starts with a comma, then the list is only split on
+commas, which allows a group name to contain a space.  In either case any
+leading and/or trailing whitespace is removed from the tokens and empty tokens
+are ignored.
+
 dit(bf(daemon uid)) This parameter specifies a uid under which the daemon will
 run. The daemon usually runs as user root, and when this is left unset the user
 is left unchanged. See also the "uid" parameter.