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authorGreg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>2019-10-06 18:26:03 -0400
committerGreg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>2019-10-21 15:55:21 -0400
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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
-rw-r--r--doc/admin/host_config.rst20
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.