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| author | Michal Židek <mzidek@redhat.com> | 2016-07-01 11:23:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Lukas Slebodnik <lslebodn@redhat.com> | 2016-07-07 16:12:30 +0200 |
| commit | c82789aad172d7ebd9f616510bdbe950dccd51ac (patch) | |
| tree | c0e40cd2526b700a3cd1d15f2dce9134867396d4 /src | |
| parent | e088912418fd4db750f2097dfde8ef9b77303f05 (diff) | |
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MAN: Config file merging
Related to:
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/2247
Explain configuration merging in sssd.conf
man page.
Signed-off-by: Dan Lavu <dlavu@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Lavu <dlavu@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/man/sssd.conf.5.xml | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/man/sssd.conf.5.xml b/src/man/sssd.conf.5.xml index d5442d0cd..924dead23 100644 --- a/src/man/sssd.conf.5.xml +++ b/src/man/sssd.conf.5.xml @@ -55,6 +55,45 @@ </para> </refsect1> + <refsect1 id='config-snippets'> + <title>CONFIGURATION SNIPPETS FROM INCLUDE DIRECTORY</title> + + <para> + The configuration file <filename>sssd.conf</filename> will + include configuration snippets using the include directory + <filename>conf.d</filename>. This feature is available if + SSSD was compiled with libini version 1.3.0 or later. + </para> + + <para> + Any file placed in <filename>conf.d</filename> + that ends in <quote><filename>.conf</filename></quote> + and does not begin with a dot (<quote>.</quote>) will + be used together with <filename>sssd.conf</filename> + to configure SSSD. + </para> + + <para> + The configuration snippets from <filename>conf.d</filename> + have higher priority than <filename>sssd.conf</filename> + and will override <filename>sssd.conf</filename> when + conflicts occur. If several snippets are present in + <filename>conf.d</filename>, then they are included in + alphabetical order (based on locale). + Files included later have higher priority. Numerical + prefixes (<filename>01_snippet.conf</filename>, + <filename>02_snippet.conf</filename> etc.) can help + visualize the priority (higher number means higher + priority). + </para> + + <para> + The snippet files require the same owner and permissions + as <filename>sssd.conf</filename>. Which are by default + root:root and 0600. + </para> + </refsect1> + <refsect1 id='general-options'> <title>GENERAL OPTIONS</title> <para> |