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diff --git a/docs/manpages/winbindd.8 b/docs/manpages/winbindd.8 index 58cc79b1dd9..5f891021b43 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/winbindd.8 +++ b/docs/manpages/winbindd.8 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "WINBINDD" "8" "08 June 2001" "" "" +.TH "WINBINDD" "8" "22 June 2001" "" "" .SH NAME winbindd \- Name Service Switch daemon for resolving names from NT servers .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Users and groups are allocated as they are resolved to a range of user and group ids specified by the administrator of the Samba system. .PP -The service provided by winbindd is called `winbind' and +The service provided by \fBwinbindd\fR is called `winbind' and can be used to resolve user and group information from a Windows NT server. The service can also provide authentication services via an associated PAM module. @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ separator so that the unix user names look like DOMAIN\\username. In some cases this separator character may cause problems as the '\\' character has special meaning in unix shells. In that case you can use the winbind separator -option to specify an alternative sepataror character. Good +option to specify an alternative separator character. Good alternatives may be '/' (although that conflicts with the unix directory separator) or a '+ 'character. The '+' character appears to be the best choice for 100% @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Example: \fBwinbind separator = + \fR \fBwinbind uid\fR The winbind uid parameter specifies the range of user ids that are allocated by the winbindd daemon. -This range of ids should have no existing local or nis users +This range of ids should have no existing local or NIS users within it as strange conflicts can occur otherwise. Default: \fBwinbind uid = <empty string> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Example: \fBwinbind uid = 10000-20000\fR \fBwinbind gid\fR The winbind gid parameter specifies the range of group ids that are allocated by the winbindd daemon. -This range of group ids should have no existing local or nis +This range of group ids should have no existing local or NIS groups within it as strange conflicts can occur otherwise. Default: \fBwinbind gid = <empty string> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ This parameter specifies the number of seconds the winbindd daemon will cache user and group information before querying a Windows NT server again. When a item in the cache is older than this time winbindd will ask the domain -controller for the sequence number of the servers account database. +controller for the sequence number of the server's account database. If the sequence number has not changed then the cached item is marked as valid for a further \fIwinbind cache time \fRseconds. Otherwise the item is fetched from the @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ calls to the \fBgetpwent\fR system call will not return any data. \fBWarning:\fR Turning off user enumeration -may cause some programs to behave oddly. For example, the finger +may cause some programs to behave oddly. For example, the \fBfinger\fR program relies on having access to the full user list when searching for matching usernames. @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ The next step is to join the domain. To do that use the \fBsamedit -S '*' -W DOMAIN -UAdministrator\fR .PP The username after the \fI-U\fR can be any Domain -user that has administrator priviliges on the machine. Next from +user that has administrator privileges on the machine. Next from within \fBsamedit\fR, run the command: .PP \fBcreateuser MACHINE$ -j DOMAIN -L\fR @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ made from \fI/lib/libnss_winbind.so\fR to older version of glibc then the target of the link should be \fI/lib/libnss_winbind.so.1\fR. .PP -Finally, setup a smb.conf containing directives like the +Finally, setup a \fIsmb.conf\fR containing directives like the following: .PP .sp @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ Storage for cached user and group information. .PP This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite. winbindd is however not available in -stable release of Samba as of yet. +the stable release of Samba as of yet. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fInsswitch.conf(5)\fR, |