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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/winbind.html b/docs/htmldocs/winbind.html index 2f023561edc..447069f17aa 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/winbind.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/winbind.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE ->Unifed Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind</TITLE +>Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.57"></HEAD @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ CLASS="TITLEPAGE" CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN1" ->Unifed Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind</A +>Unified Logons between Windows NT and UNIX using Winbind</A ></H1 ><HR></DIV ><DIV @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ CLASS="EMPHASIS" >winbind </I >, a component of the Samba suite of programs as a - solution to the unied logon problem. Winbind uses a UNIX implementation + solution to the unified logon problem. Winbind uses a UNIX implementation of Microsoft RPC calls, Pluggable Authentication Modules, and the Name Service Switch to allow Windows NT domain users to appear and operate as UNIX users on a UNIX machine. This paper describes the winbind @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ NAME="AEN7" can lead to synchronization problems between the UNIX and Windows systems and confusion for users.</P ><P ->We divide the unifed logon problem for UNIX machines into +>We divide the unified logon problem for UNIX machines into three smaller problems:</P ><P ></P @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ NAME="AEN7" information on the UNIX machines and without creating additional tasks for the system administrator when maintaining users and groups on either system. The winbind system provides a simple - and elegant solution to all three components of the unifed logon + and elegant solution to all three components of the unified logon problem.</P ></DIV ><DIV @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ NAME="AEN40" >The Name Service Switch, or NSS, is a feature that is present in many UNIX operating systems. It allows system information such as hostnames, mail aliases and user information - to be resolved from dierent sources. For example, a standalone + to be resolved from different sources. For example, a standalone UNIX workstation may resolve system information from a series of flat files stored on the local lesystem. A networked workstation may first attempt to resolve system information from local files, @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ CLASS="FILENAME" for a line which matches the service type being requested, for example the "passwd" service type is used when user or group names are looked up. This config line species which implementations - of that service should be tried andin what order. If the passwd + of that service should be tried and in what order. If the passwd config line is:</P ><P ><B @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ NAME="AEN56" >Pluggable Authentication Modules, also known as PAM, is a system for abstracting authentication and authorization technologies. With a PAM module it is possible to specify different - authentication methods for dierent system applications without + authentication methods for different system applications without having to recompile these applications. PAM is also useful for implementing a particular policy for authorization. For example, a system administrator may only allow console logins from users @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ NAME="AEN56" this change take eect directly on the Primary Domain Controller. </P ><P ->PAM is congured by providing control files in the directory +>PAM is configured by providing control files in the directory <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/pam.d/</TT @@ -350,11 +350,11 @@ NAME="AEN64" ></H2 ><P >When a user or group is created under Windows NT - is it allocated a numerical relative identier (RID). This is - slightly dierent to UNIX which has a range of numbers which are + is it allocated a numerical relative identifier (RID). This is + slightly different to UNIX which has a range of numbers which are used to identify users, and the same range in which to identify groups. It is winbind's job to convert RIDs to UNIX id numbers and - vice versa. When winbind is congured it is given part of the UNIX + vice versa. When winbind is configured it is given part of the UNIX user id space and a part of the UNIX group id space in which to store Windows NT users and groups. If a Windows NT user is resolved for the first time, it is allocated the next UNIX id from @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ NAME="AEN68" by NT domain controllers. User or group information returned by a PDC is cached by winbind along with a sequence number also returned by the PDC. This sequence number is incremented by - Windows NT whenever any user or group information is modied. If + Windows NT whenever any user or group information is modified. If a cached entry has expired, the sequence number is requested from the PDC and compared against the sequence number of the cached entry. If the sequence numbers do not match, then the cached information @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ CLASS="FILENAME" CLASS="COMMAND" >winbindd(8)</B > man page which will provide you - with conguration information and give you sample conguration files. + with configuration information and give you sample configuration files. You may also wish to update the main Samba daemons smbd and nmbd) with a more recent development release, such as the recently announced Samba 2.2 alpha release.</P |