<indexterm><primary>trust accounts</primary></indexterm>
The POSIX and sambaSamAccount components of computer (machine) accounts are both used by Samba.
Thus, machine accounts are treated inside Samba in the same way that Windows NT4/200X treats
- them. A user account and a machine account are indistinquishable from each other, except that
+ them. A user account and a machine account are indistinguishable from each other, except that
the machine account ends in a $ character, as do trust accounts.
</para>
<entry><para>0</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><para>Mimimum Password Length</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Minimum Password Length</para></entry>
<entry><para>min password length</para></entry>
<entry><para>1 - 14 (Chars)</para></entry>
<entry><para>0 - 4294967295 (Chars)</para></entry>
&rootprompt; pdbedit -P "maximum password age" -C 7776000
account policy value for maximum password age was 4294967295
account policy value for maximum password age is now 7776000
-&rootprompt; pdbedit -P "minimum password age" -C 7
+&rootprompt; pdbedit -P "minimum password age" -C 604800
account policy value for minimum password age was 0
account policy value for minimum password age is now 7
&rootprompt; pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 8
<listitem><para>
<indexterm><primary>lookups</primary></indexterm>
The first problem is that all lookups must be performed sequentially. Given that
- there are approximately two lookups per domain logon (one during intial logon validation
+ there are approximately two lookups per domain logon (one during initial logon validation
and one for a session connection setup, such as when mapping a network drive or printer), this
is a performance bottleneck for large sites. What is needed is an indexed approach
such as that used in databases.
</sect3>
<sect3>
- <title>Using OpenLDAP Overlay for Password Syncronization</title>
+ <title>Using OpenLDAP Overlay for Password Synchronization</title>
<para>
Howard Chu has written a special overlay called <command>smbk5pwd</command>. This tool modifies the