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krb5-doc/967: Corrections to the manual page for krb5kdc.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Davis)
Mon Jun 11 08:56:10 2001

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>Number:         967
>Category:       krb5-doc
>Synopsis:       Corrections to the manual page for krb5kdc.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    krb5-unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   unknown
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 11 08:56:00 EDT 2001
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dennis Davis
>Organization:
Bath University Computing Services, UK
>Release:        krb5-1.2.2
>Environment:
	
System: OpenBSD ancho.bath.ac.uk 2.8 ANCHO#0 i386


>Description:
krb5kdc will accept a "-n" argument which means it won't put itself
in the background and disassociate itself from the terminal.  There
is no description of this in the manual page for krb5kdc.
>How-To-Repeat:
Not applicable.
>Fix:
I really like daemons that offer the possibility of not
backgrounding themselves.  Especially if they are critial pieces of
software.  I run such daemons under the control of Dan Bernstein's
daemontools package.  Amongst other things this will monitor the
daemon and restart it if it fails.  So I'm running the krb5kdc and
kadmind daemons with the "-n" and "-nofork" arguments respectively.

(Having said the above, I've only had our kerberosIV daemon fail
 once in the last eighteen months.  But hey, I wanna be paranoid
 when I grow up :-)

Appended below are fixes to the manual page for krb5kdc which
document the "-n" argument.

*** krb5-1.2.2/src/kdc/krb5kdc.M.orig	Wed Feb 28 22:07:28 2001
--- krb5-1.2.2/src/kdc/krb5kdc.M	Mon Jun 11 10:51:30 2001
***************
*** 41,46 ****
--- 41,48 ----
  ] [
  .B \-m
  ] [
+ .B \-n
+ ] [
  .B \-r
  .I realm
  ] [
***************
*** 93,98 ****
--- 95,107 ----
  .B \-m
  option specifies that the master database password should be fetched
  from the keyboard rather than from a file on disk.
+ .PP
+ The
+ .B \-n
+ option specifies that the KDC does not put itself in the background
+ and does not disassociate itself from the terminal.  In normal
+ operation, you should always allow the KDC to place itself in
+ the background.
  .PP
  The
  .B \-4
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
Documentation for the "-n" argument to krb5kdc is missing.

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