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authorTom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>2010-02-25 20:09:45 +0000
committerTom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>2010-02-25 20:09:45 +0000
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doc updates for allow_weak_crypto
Update documentation to be more helpful about allow_weak_crypto. ticket: 6669 target_version: 1.8 tags: pullup git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@23750 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
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@@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ types that should be requested by the client, in the same format.
This relation identifies the permitted list of session key encryption
types.
+.IP allow_weak_crypto
+If this is set to 0 (for false), then weak encryption types will be
+filtered out of the previous three lists. The default value for this
+tag is false, which may cause authentication failures in existing
+Kerberos infrastructures that do not support strong crypto. Users in
+affected environments should set this tag to true until their
+infrastructure adopts stronger ciphers.
+
.IP clockskew
This relation sets the maximum allowable amount of clockskew in seconds
that the library will tolerate before assuming that a Kerberos message