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@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@
Samba</ulink> suite.</para>
<para>The pdbedit program is used to manage the users accounts
- stored in the sam database and can be run only by root.</para>
+ stored in the sam database and can only be run by root.</para>
- <para>The pdbedit tool use the passdb modular interface and is
+ <para>The pdbedit tool uses the passdb modular interface and is
independent from the kind of users database used (currently there
- are smbpasswd, ldap, nis+ and tdb based and more can be addedd
+ are smbpasswd, ldap, nis+ and tdb based and more can be added
without changing the tool).</para>
<para>There are five main ways to use pdbedit: adding a user account,
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>-l</term>
- <listitem><para>This option list all the user accounts
+ <listitem><para>This option lists all the user accounts
present in the users database.
This option prints a list of user/uid pairs separated by
the ':' character.</para>
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>-v</term>
- <listitem><para>This option sets the verbose listing format.
- It will make pdbedit list the users in the database printing
+ <listitem><para>This option enables the verbose listing format.
+ It causes pdbedit to list the users in the database, printing
out the account fields in a descriptive format.</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -l -v</command></para>
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>-w</term>
<listitem><para>This option sets the "smbpasswd" listing format.
- It will make pdbedit list the users in the database printing
+ It will make pdbedit list the users in the database, printing
out the account fields in a format compatible with the
<filename>smbpasswd</filename> file format. (see the <ulink
url="smbpasswd.5.html"><filename>smbpasswd(5)</filename></ulink> for details)</para>
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>-u username</term>
- <listitem><para>This option specifies that the username to be
- used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing)
+ <listitem><para>This option specifies the username to be
+ used for the operation requested (listing, adding, removing).
It is <emphasis>required</emphasis> in add, remove and modify
operations and <emphasis>optional</emphasis> in list
operations.</para>
@@ -198,9 +198,9 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>-a</term>
<listitem><para>This option is used to add a user into the
- database. This command need the user name be specified with
- the -u switch. When adding a new user pdbedit will also
- ask for the password to be used</para>
+ database. This command needs a user name specified with
+ the -u switch. When adding a new user, pdbedit will also
+ ask for the password to be used.</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -a -u sorce</command>
<programlisting>new password:
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>-x</term>
<listitem><para>This option causes pdbedit to delete an account
- from the database. It need the username be specified with the
+ from the database. It needs a username specified with the
-u switch.</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -x -u bob</command></para>
@@ -237,22 +237,25 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>-i passdb-backend</term>
- <listitem><para>Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users than the one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into your
- local user database.</para>
+ <listitem><para>Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users
+ than the one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into
+ your local user database.</para>
- <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another.
- </para>
+ <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
+ another.</para>
- <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old</command>
- </para>
+ <para>Example: <command>pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old
+ </command></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-e passdb-backend</term>
- <listitem><para>Export all currently available users to the specified password database backend.</para>
+ <listitem><para>Exports all currently available users to the
+ specified password database backend.</para>
- <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to another and will ease backupping</para>
+ <para>This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to
+ another and will ease backing up.</para>
<para>Example: <command>pdbedit -e smbpasswd:/root/samba-users.backup</command></para>
</listitem>