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authorGreg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>2012-06-26 12:28:26 -0400
committerGreg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>2012-06-26 12:28:26 -0400
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Clarify module names in host_config
Explicitly state that a module name will usually be the same as the shared object name, but doesn't have to be.
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@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ A plugin module takes the form of a Unix shared object
installed a third-party plugin module and want to register it, you do
so using the **module** relation in the appropriate subsection of the
[plugins] section. The value for **module** must give the module name
-and the path to the module, separated by a colon. For example, to
-register a client preauthentication module named ``otp`` installed at
+and the path to the module, separated by a colon. The module name
+will often be the same as the shared object's name, but in unusual
+cases (such as a shared object which implements multiple modules for
+the same interface) it might not be. For example, to register a
+client preauthentication module named ``otp`` installed at
``/path/to/otp.so``, you could write::
[plugins]