krb5 commit: Fix missing field in /etc/gss/mech documentation

Greg Hudson ghudson at mit.edu
Mon Oct 21 16:48:08 EDT 2019


https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/208e85530f8a0d0490e50d89aed4f6f11acfd86a
commit 208e85530f8a0d0490e50d89aed4f6f11acfd86a
Author: Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu>
Date:   Sun Oct 6 18:26:03 2019 -0400

    Fix missing field in /etc/gss/mech documentation
    
    /etc/gss/mech lines begin with a name field, but this field was not
    included in the format documentation.
    
    ticket: 8839 (new)
    tags: pullup
    target_version: 1.17-next

 doc/admin/host_config.rst |   20 +++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/admin/host_config.rst b/doc/admin/host_config.rst
index e186dd4..91848ff 100644
--- a/doc/admin/host_config.rst
+++ b/doc/admin/host_config.rst
@@ -203,15 +203,17 @@ GSSAPI mechanism modules are registered using the file
 |sysconfdir|\ ``/gss/mech.d`` directory with a ``.conf``
 suffix.  Each line in these files has the form::
 
-    oid  pathname  [options]  <type>
-
-Only the oid and pathname are required.  *oid* is the object
-identifier of the GSSAPI mechanism to be registered.  *pathname* is a
-path to the module shared object or DLL.  *options* (if present) are
-options provided to the plugin module, surrounded in square brackets.
-*type* (if present) can be used to indicate a special type of module.
-Currently the only special module type is "interposer", for a module
-designed to intercept calls to other mechanisms.
+    name  oid  pathname  [options]  <type>
+
+Only the name, oid, and pathname are required.  *name* is the
+mechanism name, which may be used for debugging or logging purposes.
+*oid* is the object identifier of the GSSAPI mechanism to be
+registered.  *pathname* is a path to the module shared object or DLL.
+*options* (if present) are options provided to the plugin module,
+surrounded in square brackets.  *type* (if present) can be used to
+indicate a special type of module.  Currently the only special module
+type is "interposer", for a module designed to intercept calls to
+other mechanisms.
 
 If the environment variable **GSS_MECH_CONFIG** is set, its value is
 used as the sole mechanism configuration filename.


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