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index 9d1ee8e275..07b04530c3 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/smbpasswd.5
+++ b/docs/manpages/smbpasswd.5
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "SMBPASSWD" "5" "07 april 2003" "" ""
-
+.TH "SMBPASSWD" "5" "04 March 2003" "" ""
.SH NAME
smbpasswd \- The Samba encrypted password file
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ smbpasswd \- The Samba encrypted password file
\fIsmbpasswd\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
-This tool is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite.
+This tool is part of the Samba suite.
.PP
smbpasswd is the Samba encrypted password file. It contains
the username, Unix user id and the SMB hashed passwords of the
@@ -96,7 +95,7 @@ This section contains flags that describe
the attributes of the users account. In the Samba 2.2 release
this field is bracketed by '[' and ']' characters and is always
13 characters in length (including the '[' and ']' characters).
-The contents of this field may be any of the following characters:
+The contents of this field may be any of the characters.
.RS
.TP 0.2i
\(bu
@@ -109,11 +108,13 @@ in the smbpasswd file.
\fBN\fR - This means the
account has no password (the passwords in the fields LANMAN
Password Hash and NT Password Hash are ignored). Note that this
-will only allow users to log on with no password if the \fI null passwords\fR parameter is set in the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) config file.
+will only allow users to log on with no password if the \fI null passwords\fR parameter is set in the \fIsmb.conf(5)
+\fR config file.
.TP 0.2i
\(bu
\fBD\fR - This means the account
-is disabled and no SMB/CIFS logins will be allowed for this user.
+is disabled and no SMB/CIFS logins will be allowed for
+this user.
.TP 0.2i
\(bu
\fBW\fR - This means this account
@@ -138,7 +139,8 @@ This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
the Samba suite.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
-\fBsmbpasswd\fR(8), \fBSamba\fR(7), and
+\fBsmbpasswd(8)\fR
+samba(7) and
the Internet RFC1321 for details on the MD4 algorithm.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
@@ -149,7 +151,7 @@ to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
.PP
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
-excellent piece of Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
+excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
+ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
-Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
-for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
+Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter