From: Kurt Zeilenga <kurt@openldap.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:20:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify "users" terminology
X-Git-Tag: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_2_0ALPHA~362
X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06da0f5e6fb66ae27fa9fadcbd888f1800c81ef3;p=openldap

Clarify "users" terminology
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diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
index 2f078aa20a..ef4111db4e 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.access.5
@@ -177,14 +177,14 @@ refers to everybody.
 .LP
 The keyword
 .B anonymous
-means access is granted to unauthenticated users; it is moslty used 
+means access is granted to unauthenticated clients; it is mostly used 
 to limit access to authentication resources (e.g. the
 .B userPassword
-attribute) to unauthenticated users for authentication purposes.
+attribute) to unauthenticated clients for authentication purposes.
 .LP
 The keyword
 .B users
-means access is granted to authenticated users.
+means access is granted to authenticated clients.
 .LP
 The keyword
 .B self
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ access means that one is allowed access to an attribute to perform
 authentication/authorization operations (e.g.
 .BR bind )
 with no other access.
-This is useful to grant unauthenticated users the least possible 
+This is useful to grant unauthenticated clients the least possible 
 access level to critical resources, like passwords.
 .LP
 The
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ or the (even more silly) example
 .fi
 .LP
 which grants everybody search and compare privileges, and adds read
-privileges to authenticated users.
+privileges to authenticated clients.
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 ETCDIR/slapd.conf
diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
index e696f529b2..2dea58c450 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
@@ -279,10 +279,12 @@ with
 <style> ::= exact | base | one | subtree | children | regex | anonymous
 
 .RE
-.B Anonymous
-is hit when a search is performed without prior binding;
+The term
+.B anonymous
+matches all unauthenticated clients.
+the term
 .B users
-is hit when a search is performed by a successfully bound user;
+matches all authenticated clients;
 otherwise a
 .B regex
 dn pattern is assumed unless otherwise specified by qualifying