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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/rst_source/krb_plugindev/profile.rst | 12 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst b/doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst index 08a5378b49..26335490b0 100644 --- a/doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst +++ b/doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst @@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ and *options* (if present) are options provided to the plugin module, surrounded in square brackets. +.. _profile_plugin_config: + Configuration profile modules ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/doc/rst_source/krb_plugindev/profile.rst b/doc/rst_source/krb_plugindev/profile.rst index 852bad18a2..26703330b2 100644 --- a/doc/rst_source/krb_plugindev/profile.rst +++ b/doc/rst_source/krb_plugindev/profile.rst @@ -6,9 +6,15 @@ configuration information is obtained by the Kerberos library and applications. For a detailed description of the profile interface, see the header file ``<profile.h>``. -.. note: The locate interface does not follow the normal conventions - for MIT krb5 pluggable interfaces, because it is part of a - lower-level component of the krb5 library. +.. note:: The profile interface does not follow the normal conventions + for MIT krb5 pluggable interfaces, because it is part of a + lower-level component of the krb5 library. + +As with other types of plugin modules, a profile module is a Unix +shared object or Windows DLL, built separately from the krb5 tree. +The krb5 library will dynamically load and use a profile plugin module +if it reads a ``module`` directive at the beginning of krb5.conf, as +described in :ref:`profile_plugin_config`. A profile module exports a function named ``profile_module_init`` matching the signature of the profile_module_init_fn type. This |