Package: winbind Version: 2:3.2.1-1 Severity: minor This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but since that approach is a dud I'm trying the alternative of splitting them up and targetting individual packages.
Current package description: # 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.) # . # 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. Problems shared with other packages in the set: * "PAM module" is a mild but easily avoided PIN-numberism. * Samba is all about OS interoperability, so keep the OS names straight. The references to "Windows NT" are presumably just a rather ninetiesish way of saying "on a Windows domain". * and the wishlist item: WIBNI all the packages in the suite had consistently styled short descriptions (especially important where the package name gives no hint of its affiliation). Likewise, consistent what-Samba-is boilerplate. Problems unique to this package: * a package that provides a daemon that provides a service, and a service provided by a daemon that can also provide services! * the first thing a user needs to know about Name Service Switch isn't this strangely dated and irrelevant stuff about "most modern C libraries" (a man page quote?), or even its name; it's the fact that it's configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. * it doesn't make it clear that pam_winbind.so is included in this package (but requires a bit of config-wrestling). * it doesn't mention ADS! Indeed it never gets round to hinting at the actual point of winbind: unified network logons. I think I'll just have to throw the existing text away and start again from scratch. Let me know if I'm getting it wrong... Suggested replacement text: | Description: Samba nameservice integration server | The Samba software suite implements the SMB/CIFS protocol, providing | cross-platform support for Windows-style network shares. | . | 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. -- JBR - please CC me (or the debian-l10n-english list) in replies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]