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authorDavid O'Brien <daobrien@daobrien.csb>2009-12-02 17:45:42 +1000
committerStephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com>2009-12-03 10:26:21 -0500
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Copy-edit sssd-ipa man page
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+++ b/server/man/sssd-ipa.5.xml
@@ -20,27 +20,27 @@
<refsect1 id='description'>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
- This manual page describes the configuration of the IPA Provider
+ This manual page describes the configuration of the IPA provider
for
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>sssd</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>.
- For a detailed syntax reference, please refer to the <quote>FILE FORMAT</quote> section of the
+ For a detailed syntax reference, refer to the <quote>FILE FORMAT</quote> section of the
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>sssd.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry> manual page
+ </citerefentry> manual page.
</para>
<para>
- The IPA provider is a backend useful to connect to an IPA server.
- (see freeipa.org for information about IPa servers).
- It requires that the machine has been joined to the IPA domain,
- and configuration is almost entirely self discovered and obtained
+ The IPA provider is a back end used to connect to an IPA server.
+ (Refer to the freeipa.org web site for information about IPA servers.)
+ This provider requires that the machine be joined to the IPA domain;
+ configuration is almost entirely self-discovered and obtained
directly from the server.
</para>
<para>
- The IPA provider also accepts the same options used by the
+ The IPA provider accepts the same options used by the
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>sssd-ldap</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
@@ -49,25 +49,24 @@
<refentrytitle>sssd-krb5</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> authentication provider.
- But it is not recommended to set these options and it is not necessary.
+ However, it is neither necessary nor recommended to set these options.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='file-format'>
<title>CONFIGURATION OPTIONS</title>
- <para>
+ <para>Refer to the section <quote>DOMAIN SECTIONS</quote> of the
<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>sssd.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry> manual page, section <quote>DOMAIN SECTIONS</quote>
- for details on the configuration of a SSSD domain.
+ </citerefentry> manual page for details on the configuration of an SSSD domain.
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>ipa_domain (string)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the name of the IPA domain.
- This is optional, if not provided the configuration
+ This is optional. If not provided, the configuration
domain name is used.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -78,7 +77,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
The name of the IPA server.
- If autodiscovery is enabled this is optional.
+ This is optional if autodiscovery is enabled.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@
<term>ipa_hostname (string)</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Optional. Maybe set on some machine where the
+ Optional. May be set on machines where the
hostname(5) does not reflect the fully qualified
name used in the IPA domain to identify this host.
</para>
@@ -105,8 +104,8 @@
Default: true
</para>
<para>
- Please note that this default differs from the
- traditional kerberos provider backend.
+ Note that this default differs from the
+ traditional Kerberos provider back end.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@
The following example assumes that SSSD is correctly
configured and example.com is one of the domains in the
<replaceable>[sssd]</replaceable> section. This examples shows only
- the ipa provider specific options.
+ the ipa provider-specific options.
</para>
<para>
<programlisting>