[SSSD] [PATCH] Fix man page
Stephen Gallagher
sgallagh at redhat.com
Fri Nov 19 12:38:26 UTC 2010
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On 11/19/2010 06:39 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 04:44 AM, Sumit Bose wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> I've found a misleading statement in the man page, this patch should
>> fix it.
>
>
> Nack. GSSAPI does not guarantee that Kerberos is available for user
> logins. It's strongly indicative, but it WOULD be possible for an
> environment to be set up to use GSSAPI instead of certificates for
> maintaining client->LDAP connectivity, without using Kerberos for auth.
>
> Yes, it would make more SENSE to use Kerberos for auth in this
> situation, but it's not mandatory.
>
> Also, I was under the impression that we DID support authentication over
> GSSAPI. If that's not true, please file an enhancement bug.
>
After discussion with Sumit on IRC, I withdraw my nack. This is
something we can add later if we actually get a request for it.
Ack to the manpage change.
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