[36258] in Kerberos
Re: Config file validation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zhanna Tsitkov)
Sun Jul 6 11:58:11 2014
From: Zhanna Tsitkov <tsitkova@mit.edu>
To: Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter@posteo.de>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 15:57:54 +0000
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Hello,
If you think that the problem is in the configuration file syntax, there is a configuration validation tool util/confvalidation/validator.py that might be helpful in your case.
Thanks,
Zhanna
On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I've been wondering if there's any way to validate Kerberos'
>> configuration file(s) (e.g. like `apachectl -S` of the apache2 web
>> server), get information about error location or get more than
>>
>> krb5kdc: Improper format of Kerberos configuration file while
>> initializing krb5
>>
>> out of an invokation of `krb5kdc` (What is wrong? Where? In which file?).
>
> I don't believe that there is a way to get more information about the
> error location or a standalone way to validate the configuration file(s).
>
> We have an entry in our bug tracker about the error messages from config
> file parsing, http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=5562 , but
> it is not particularly active.
>
> -Ben Kaduk
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