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authorJoshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>2002-10-23 08:29:46 +0400
committerJoshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>2002-10-23 08:29:46 +0400
commita8ab20942e684c3a3061c39bafcb2694ef99f51b (patch)
treed73e571e2dfafb692f495404dd5180f5522abfaf
parent0fd3e6ea29b066919ac03016d9bacf81693cb744 (diff)
* ntsec.sgml: Correct some minor grammatical errors.
-rw-r--r--winsup/doc/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml21
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
index abced3172..abec5fe43 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2002-10-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
+ * ntsec.sgml: Correct some minor grammatical errors.
+
+2002-10-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
+
* dll.sgml: Simplify dll build instructions.
2002-09-11 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml b/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml
index b6982335f..54deaf16d 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ set </para></listitem>
<para>The two important types of ACEs are the `access allowed ACE' and the
`access denied ACE'. The ntsec patch only used `access allowed ACEs' up
-to Cygwin version 1.1.0. Later versions use `access denied ACEs' as well
-to reflect the UNIX permissions as good as possible.</para>
+to Cygwin version 1.1.0. Later versions also use `access denied ACEs'
+to reflect the UNIX permissions as well as possible.</para>
<para>The possible permissions on objects are more detailed than in
UNIX. For example, the permission to delete an object is different
@@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ well known group with different naming in local systems and domains.
Outside of domains the group is named 'None' (`Kein' in German, `Aucun'
in French, etc.), in domains it is named 'Domain Users'. Unfortunately,
the group `None' is never shown in the user admin tool outside of domains!
-This is very confusing but it seems that this has no negativ influences.</para>
+This is very confusing but this seems to have no negative consequences.</para>
-<para>To work correctly the ntsec patch depends on reasoned files
+<para>To work correctly the ntsec patch depends on the files
<filename>/etc/passwd/</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename>.
In cygwin release 1.0 the names and the IDs must correspond to the
appropriate NT IDs! The IDs used in cygwin are the RID of the NT SID, as
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ have to change the primary group by hand if `None' as primary group is
not what you want (and I'm sure, it's not what you want!)</para>
<para>Look at the following examples, which were parts of my files before
-storing SIDs in /etc/passwd and /etc/group has been introduced (See next
+storing SIDs in /etc/passwd and /etc/group had been introduced (See next
chapter for details). With the exception of my personal user entry, all
entries are well known entries.</para>
@@ -286,15 +286,15 @@ powerusers::547:
</screen>
</example>
-<para>As you can see, I've changed my primary group membership from 513 (None)
-to 547 (powerusers). So all file I created inside of Cygwin were now owned
+<para>As you can see, I changed my primary group membership from 513 (None)
+to 547 (powerusers). So all files I created inside of Cygwin were now owned
by the powerusers group instead of None. This is the way I liked it.</para>
<para>Groups may be mentioned in the passwd file, too. This has two
advantages:</para>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem><para>Because NT assigns them to files as owners, a
-<command>ls -l</command> is often better readable.</para></listitem>
+<command>ls -l</command> is often more readable.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Moreover it's possible to assigned them to files as
owners with cygwin's <command>chown</command>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -593,11 +593,12 @@ permissions:</para>
"Increase quotas"
</screen>
-<para>Note that administrators do not have all that user rights set by default.</para>
+<para>Note that administrators do not have all these user rights set
+by default.</para>
<para>Two new Cygwin calls are introduced to support porting
<command>setuid</command> applications with a minimum of effort. You only
-have to care to give Cygwin the right access token and then you can call
+give Cygwin the right access token and then you can call
<command>seteuid</command> or <command>setuid</command> as usual in POSIX
applications. The call to <command>sexec</command> is not needed
anymore. Porting a <command>setuid</command> application is illustrated by