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| author | Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> | 2007-01-04 22:32:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> | 2007-01-04 22:32:41 +0000 |
| commit | b4d4720c936546fed3b9a4082938fda5b1cd4257 (patch) | |
| tree | c488e4220e79fe845d30fe8810d40f9ce326167d /doc | |
| parent | 730ed7029f9e4355e0c72ed653dabb46ccbc3026 (diff) | |
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Document KDC behavior without stash file
After the discussion of the optional stash file, document the effects of
not creating a stash file.
ticket: new
Component: krb5-doc
Version_Reported: 1.5.1
Target_Version: 1.6
Tags: pullup
git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@19035 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install.texinfo b/doc/install.texinfo index ebd64ce92..fb13a8192 100644 --- a/doc/install.texinfo +++ b/doc/install.texinfo @@ -461,6 +461,10 @@ should not be part of any backup of the machine, unless access to the backup data is secured as tightly as access to the master password itself. +If you choose not to install a stash file, the KDC will prompt you for +the master key each time it starts up. This means that the KDC will +not be able to start automatically, such as after a system reboot. + Note that @code{kdb5_util} will prompt you for the master key for the Kerberos database. This key can be any string. A good key is one you can remember, but that no one else can guess. Examples of bad keys are |