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krb5 commit: Clarify module names in host_config

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 26 12:29:02 2012

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:28:36 -0400
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https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b192edd9e9157741521bb08088d26f6a5276a4f9
commit b192edd9e9157741521bb08088d26f6a5276a4f9
Author: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Date:   Tue Jun 26 12:28:26 2012 -0400

    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.

 doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst b/doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst
index 2adc702..e5ef06b 100644
--- a/doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst
+++ b/doc/rst_source/krb_admins/host_config.rst
@@ -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]
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