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authorRuss Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>2007-01-05 21:42:38 +0000
committerRuss Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>2007-01-05 21:42:38 +0000
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Document what the kadmind ACL is for
Add a sentence documenting the purpose of the kadmind ACL to the node explaining how to create it. Ticket: 5279 Component: krb5-doc Version_Reported: 1.5.1 Target_Version: 1.6 Tags: pullup git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@19036 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
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@subsubsection Add Administrators to the Acl File
Next, you need create an Access Control List (acl) file, and put the
-Kerberos principal of at least one of the administrators into it. The
-filename should match the value you have set for ``acl_file'' in your
-@code{kdc.conf} file. The default file name is
-@samp{@value{DefaultAclFile}}.
+Kerberos principal of at least one of the administrators into it. This
+file is used by the @code{kadmind} daemon to control which principals
+may view and make privileged modifications to the Kerberos database
+files. The filename should match the value you have set for
+``acl_file'' in your @code{kdc.conf} file. The default file name is
+@samp{@value{DefaultAclFile}}.
@include kadm5acl.texinfo