[krbdev.mit.edu #6348] kadmin and ktutil installed in sbin, should be bin

Tom Yu via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Fri Feb 20 12:31:07 EST 2009


"Russ Allbery via RT" <rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

> "Greg Hudson via RT" <rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> We discussed this at a meeting and we basically agree.  kadmin in
>> particular is normally run by non-root users and belongs in bin.  ktutil
>> is a little less clear because the usual use case is to operate on host
>> keytabs which are only readable by root--but there are other fairly
>> common use cases, so it probably belongs in bin.
>>
>> Do you want to commit the change for this to our repository?
>
> I've committed this now.  I left the man pages in the man8 directory,
> however, both because there are existing cross-references and because
> there isn't always a one-to-one mapping between path and man1 vs. man8.
> Let me know if you'd like me to move the man pages to section one as well,
> though.
>
> I also left k5srvutil where it is, although I wasn't sure that was the
> right decision.

After thinking about it somewhat, I forsee a use case where a Kerberos
administrator wishes to run k5srvutil (as a non-superuser) to generate
a keytab for a customer to install.

I think we should also put k5srvutil in the PREFIX/bin for this
reason.




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