From 55abd936a838a4410899db76cb5530b0c4694dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Carter Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:19:10 +0000 Subject: mega-merge from 2.2 (This used to be commit c76bf8ed3275e217d1b691879153fe9137bcbe38) --- docs/docbook/projdoc/NT_Security.sgml | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/docbook/projdoc/NT_Security.sgml') diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/NT_Security.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/NT_Security.sgml index 28dcb5160d..2259dae029 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/NT_Security.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/NT_Security.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ -UNIX Permission Bits and WIndows NT Access Control Lists +UNIX Permission Bits and Windows NT Access Control Lists Viewing and changing UNIX permissions using the NT @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ <para>Where <replaceable>SERVER</replaceable> is the NetBIOS name of the Samba server, <replaceable>user</replaceable> is the user name of the UNIX user who owns the file, and <replaceable>(Long name)</replaceable> - is the discriptive string identifying the user (normally found in the + is the descriptive string identifying the user (normally found in the GECOS field of the UNIX password database). Click on the <command>Close </command> button to remove this dialog.</para> @@ -87,14 +87,14 @@ you to change the ownership of this file to yourself (clicking on it will display a dialog box complaining that the user you are currently logged onto the NT client cannot be found). The reason - for this is that changing the ownership of a file is a privilaged + for this is that changing the ownership of a file is a privileged operation in UNIX, available only to the <emphasis>root</emphasis> user. As clicking on this button causes NT to attempt to change the ownership of a file to the current user logged into the NT client this will not work with Samba at this time.</para> <para>There is an NT chown command that will work with Samba - and allow a user with Administrator privillage connected + and allow a user with Administrator privilege connected to a Samba 2.0.4 server as root to change the ownership of files on both a local NTFS filesystem or remote mounted NTFS or Samba drive. This is available as part of the <emphasis>Seclib @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ <para>Where <replaceable>SERVER</replaceable> is the NetBIOS name of the Samba server, <replaceable>user</replaceable> is the user name of the UNIX user who owns the file, and <replaceable>(Long name)</replaceable> - is the discriptive string identifying the user (normally found in the + is the descriptive string identifying the user (normally found in the GECOS field of the UNIX password database).</para> <para>If the parameter <parameter>nt acl support</parameter> @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ <title>File Permissions The standard UNIX user/group/world triple and - the correspinding "read", "write", "execute" permissions + the corresponding "read", "write", "execute" permissions triples are mapped by Samba into a three element NT ACL with the 'r', 'w', and 'x' bits mapped into the corresponding NT permissions. The UNIX world permissions are mapped into @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ The first thing to note is that the "Add" button will not return a list of users in Samba 2.0.4 (it will give - an error message of "The remote proceedure call failed + an error message of "The remote procedure call failed and did not execute"). This means that you can only manipulate the current user/group/world permissions listed in the dialog box. This actually works quite well as these are the @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ user/group/world component then you may either highlight the component and click the "Remove" button, or set the component to only have the special "Take - Ownership" permission (dsplayed as "O" + Ownership" permission (displayed as "O" ) highlighted. @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ as the force create mode parameter to provide compatibility with Samba 2.0.4 where the permission change facility was introduced. - To allow a user to modify all the user/group/world permissions on a file, + To allow a user to modify all the user/group/world permissions on a file with no restrictions set this parameter to 000. The security mask and force -- cgit