krb5 commit: Remove outdated text in krb5kdc/kadmind man pages

Greg Hudson ghudson at mit.edu
Mon May 6 15:14:56 EDT 2019


https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/4ded6dbc23d27068567943bccf4d2d986b6f7d08
commit 4ded6dbc23d27068567943bccf4d2d986b6f7d08
Author: Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu>
Date:   Sun May 5 19:32:21 2019 -0400

    Remove outdated text in krb5kdc/kadmind man pages
    
    Some init systems, such as systemd, can run daemon processes in the
    foreground, so admonishments to let krb5kdc and kadmind background
    themselves in normal operation can be confusing.  Remove those
    sentences.
    
    ticket: 8802 (new)
    tags: pullup
    target_version: 1.17-next

 doc/admin/admin_commands/kadmind.rst |    3 +--
 doc/admin/admin_commands/krb5kdc.rst |    4 +---
 src/man/kadmind.man                  |    7 +++----
 src/man/krb5kdc.man                  |    4 +---
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/admin/admin_commands/kadmind.rst b/doc/admin/admin_commands/kadmind.rst
index 9e73ece..03a0d6d 100644
--- a/doc/admin/admin_commands/kadmind.rst
+++ b/doc/admin/admin_commands/kadmind.rst
@@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 **-nofork**
     causes the server to remain in the foreground and remain
-    associated to the terminal.  In normal operation, you should allow
-    the server to place itself in the background.
+    associated to the terminal.
 
 **-proponly**
     causes the server to only listen and respond to Kerberos replica
diff --git a/doc/admin/admin_commands/krb5kdc.rst b/doc/admin/admin_commands/krb5kdc.rst
index a661ec4..08d40cc 100644
--- a/doc/admin/admin_commands/krb5kdc.rst
+++ b/doc/admin/admin_commands/krb5kdc.rst
@@ -50,9 +50,7 @@ The **-m** option specifies that the master database password should
 be fetched from the keyboard rather than from a stash file.
 
 The **-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.
+background and does not disassociate itself from the terminal.
 
 The **-P** *pid_file* option tells the KDC to write its PID into
 *pid_file* after it starts up.  This can be used to identify whether
diff --git a/src/man/kadmind.man b/src/man/kadmind.man
index 4b6410e..f624b01 100644
--- a/src/man/kadmind.man
+++ b/src/man/kadmind.man
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\" Man page generated from reStructuredText.
 .
-.TH "KADMIND" "8" " " "1.17" "MIT Kerberos"
+.TH "KADMIND" "8" " " "1.18" "MIT Kerberos"
 .SH NAME
 kadmind \- KADM5 administration server
 .
@@ -98,8 +98,7 @@ disk.
 .TP
 \fB\-nofork\fP
 causes the server to remain in the foreground and remain
-associated to the terminal.  In normal operation, you should allow
-the server to place itself in the background.
+associated to the terminal.
 .TP
 \fB\-proponly\fP
 causes the server to only listen and respond to Kerberos replica
@@ -149,6 +148,6 @@ kdb5_ldap_util(8), kadm5.acl(5), kerberos(7)
 .SH AUTHOR
 MIT
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-1985-2018, MIT
+1985-2019, MIT
 .\" Generated by docutils manpage writer.
 .
diff --git a/src/man/krb5kdc.man b/src/man/krb5kdc.man
index dfb9a14..062880c 100644
--- a/src/man/krb5kdc.man
+++ b/src/man/krb5kdc.man
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ The \fB\-m\fP option specifies that the master database password should
 be fetched from the keyboard rather than from a stash file.
 .sp
 The \fB\-n\fP 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.
+background and does not disassociate itself from the terminal.
 .sp
 The \fB\-P\fP \fIpid_file\fP option tells the KDC to write its PID into
 \fIpid_file\fP after it starts up.  This can be used to identify whether


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