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authorArthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org>2014-05-04 16:23:26 +0200
committerArthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org>2014-05-04 23:28:24 +0200
commitf6f373008a6ddc40233eceb4ece024396f49c746 (patch)
treecd29d05c69f5ba2dae8d0ae625528eb2b3ae1c53
parented79110fc32aba70cf1d65979a6419abc2272625 (diff)
Small documentation improvements
This includes a number of minor changes to the documentation. This also documents the children search scope (related to 2caeef4).
-rw-r--r--README6
-rw-r--r--man/nslcd.conf.5.xml9
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 62184b9..1395d95 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -344,9 +344,9 @@ group membership
Currently, two ways of specifying group membership are supported. The first,
by using the memberUid attribute, is the simplest and by far the fastest
-(takes the least number of lookups). The attribute values are user names with
-the format as the uid attribute for posixAccount entries and are returned
-without further processing.
+(takes the least number of lookups). The attribute values are user names (same
+as the uid attribute for posixAccount entries) and are returned without
+further processing.
The second method is to use DN values in the member attribute (attribute names
can be changed by using the attribute mapping options as described in the
diff --git a/man/nslcd.conf.5.xml b/man/nslcd.conf.5.xml
index 5a7ce26..ca9ba20 100644
--- a/man/nslcd.conf.5.xml
+++ b/man/nslcd.conf.5.xml
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@
<varlistentry id="scope"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
<term><option>scope</option>
<optional><replaceable>MAP</replaceable></optional>
- sub<optional>tree</optional>|one<optional>level</optional>|base</term>
+ sub<optional>tree</optional>|one<optional>level</optional>|base|children</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the search scope (subtree, onelevel, base or children).
@@ -825,14 +825,13 @@
<para>
If this option is set, on start-up and whenever a connection to the
<acronym>LDAP</acronym> server is re-established after an error
- the specified cache is flushed.
+ the specified caches are flushed.
</para>
<para>
If <replaceable>DB</replaceable> is one of the nsswitch maps,
<command>nscd</command> is contacted to flush its cache for the
specified database.
- </para>
- <para> <!-- since 0.9.1 -->
+ <!-- since 0.9.1 -->
If <replaceable>DB</replaceable> is <literal>nfsidmap</literal>,
<command>nfsidmap</command> is contacted to clear its cache.
</para>
@@ -851,7 +850,7 @@
<optional><replaceable>TIME</replaceable></optional></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Configure the time entries are kept in the specified cache.
+ Configure the time entries are kept in the specified internal cache.
</para>
<para>
The first <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> value specifies the time