[Pkg-samba-maint] r2264 - branches/samba/experimental/debian

[bubulle at alioth.debian.org]

tags 496208 pending
thanks

Author: bubulle
Date: 2008-12-29 10:28:17 +0000 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008)
New Revision: 2264

Modified:
   branches/samba/experimental/debian/changelog
   branches/samba/experimental/debian/control
Log:
Improve winbind package description

Modified: branches/samba/experimental/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- branches/samba/experimental/debian/changelog	2008-12-29 10:26:38 UTC (rev 2263)
+++ branches/samba/experimental/debian/changelog	2008-12-29 10:28:17 UTC (rev 2264)
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
   * Improve smbclient package description. Closes: #496205
   * Improve smbfs package description. Closes: #496206
   * Improve swat package description. Closes: #496207
+  * Improve winbind package description. Closes: #496208
 
  -- Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>  Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:23:23 -0600
 

Modified: branches/samba/experimental/debian/control
===================================================================
--- branches/samba/experimental/debian/control	2008-12-29 10:26:38 UTC (rev 2263)
+++ branches/samba/experimental/debian/control	2008-12-29 10:28:17 UTC (rev 2264)
@@ -179,15 +179,19 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, samba-common (= ${binary:Version}), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), adduser
 Replaces: samba (<= 2.2.3-2)
-Description: service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers
- This package provides the winbindd daemon, which provides a
- service for the Name Service Switch capability that is present
- in most modern C libraries (like the GNU C Library - glibc.)
+Description: Samba nameservice integration server
+ Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
+ providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with
+ Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.  Samba can also function
+ as an NT4-style domain controller, and can integrate with both NT4 domains
+ and Active Directory realms as a member server.
  .
- The service provided by winbindd is called `winbind' and
- can be used to resolve user and group information from a
- Windows NT server. The service can also provide authentication
- services via an associated PAM module.
+ This package provides winbindd, a daemon which can integrate the
+ user/group lookup and authentication mechanisms from a Windows domain
+ with their equivalents on the Samba side. Thus for example users who
+ have Active Directory accounts can automatically be given working
+ /etc/password logins and vice versa, once /etc/nsswitch.conf and the
+ winbind module for PAM are configured appropriately.
 
 Package: samba-dbg
 Section: devel