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authorCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2014-07-30 12:00:24 +0000
committerCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2014-07-30 12:00:24 +0000
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* ntsec.xml: Small improvments.
-rw-r--r--winsup/doc/ChangeLog4
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2 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
index 3345a5aa5..1ebc88575 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2014-07-30 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+ * ntsec.xml: Small improvments.
+
+2014-07-30 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
* new-features.xml: (ov-new1.7): Change section title.
2014-07-30 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml b/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml
index 40609cfbc..7bc0f2b65 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml
@@ -537,11 +537,13 @@ and
<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379159%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">LookupAccountName</ulink>
functions cannnot resolve the SIDs, unless they know the name of the machine
this SID comes from. And even then it will probably suffer a
-"Permission denied" when trying to ask the machine for its local account.
+<literal>Permission denied</literal> error when trying to ask the machine
+for its local account.
</para>
<para>
-Cygwin will map the account to the fake accounts "Unknown+User"/"Unknown+Group"
+Cygwin will map the account to the fake accounts
+<literal>Unknown+User</literal>/<literal>Unknown+Group</literal>
with uid/gid -1.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -590,7 +592,7 @@ of the machine are mapped to Cygwin names without domain prefix:
</para>
<screen>
-"corinna", "bigfoot", "Domain Users", ...
+ "corinna", "bigfoot", "Domain Users", ...
</screen>
<para>
@@ -628,7 +630,8 @@ created from the account RID:
<para>
Otherwise we know nothing about this SID, so it will be mapped to the
-fake accounts "Unknown+User"/"Unknown+Group" with uid/gid -1.
+fake accounts <literal>Unknown+User</literal>/<literal>Unknown+Group</literal>
+with uid/gid -1.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -676,8 +679,9 @@ You want to specify a different login shell than <filename>/bin/bash</filename>.
<para>
How this is done depends on your account being a domain account or a
local account. Let's start with the default. Assuming your Windows
-account name is "bigfoot" and your domain is "MY_DOM". Your default
-passwd entry in absence of anything I'll describe below looks like this:
+account name is <literal>bigfoot</literal> and your domain is
+<literal>MY_DOM</literal>. Your default passwd entry in absence of
+anything I'll describe below looks like this:
</para>
<screen>
@@ -717,9 +721,9 @@ or Cygwin will utilize the
<literal>posixAccount</literal>/<literal>posixGroup</literal> attributes per
<ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2307">RFC 2307</ulink>. These
attributes are by default available in Active Directory since Windows Server
-2003 R2. They are "not set", unless utilized by the (deprecated since Server
-2012 R2) Active Directory "Server for NIS" feature. The user attributes
-utilized by Cygwin are:
+2003 R2. They are <literal>not set</literal>, unless utilized by the
+(deprecated since Server 2012 R2) Active Directory "Server for NIS" feature.
+The user attributes utilized by Cygwin are:
</para>
<segmentedlist><?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
@@ -784,7 +788,7 @@ that,
<listitem>
<para>
-or enter the information into the "Comment" field of your local user entry.
+or enter the information into the comment field of your local user entry.
In the <literal>Local Users and Groups</literal> MMC snap-in it's called
<literal>Description</literal>.
</para>