[2769] in Kerberos
Re: KDC shutdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Thu Aug 5 00:47:59 1993
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 93 00:41:06 EDT
From: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: ramus@nersc.gov
Cc: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Joe Ramus's message of Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:43:40 PDT,
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:43:40 PDT
From: ramus@nersc.gov (Joe Ramus)
Is there a command to do an orderly shutdown of the Kerberos 5 KDC?
I have been using "kill" to do it but is that "safe"?
Suppose that someone is changing their password just as I send
the kill signal.
Yes, it most certainly is safe. The Kerberos KDC only opens the
Kerberos database in readonly mode. It is the kadmind which gets
involved with someone changing their password, and even if there isn't
now, there ought to be code so that it will clean up and exit after
receiving a normal kill signal.
- Ted
