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authorRuss Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>2014-07-16 13:43:17 -0700
committerRuss Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>2014-07-16 13:43:17 -0700
commit6409733ee3b7b1910dc1c166a392cc628834146c (patch)
treee9460f8f2ca0f3676afeed2a9dcf549acfc39b53 /client/wallet-rekey.pod
parent334ed844cbb5c8f7ea82a94c701a3016dd6950b9 (diff)
parentf8963ceb19cd2b503b981f43a3f8c0f45649989f (diff)
Imported Upstream version 1.1
Diffstat (limited to 'client/wallet-rekey.pod')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/client/wallet-rekey.pod b/client/wallet-rekey.pod
index 47413ad..a36a734 100644
--- a/client/wallet-rekey.pod
+++ b/client/wallet-rekey.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=for stopwords
wallet-rekey rekey rekeying keytab -hv Heimdal remctl remctld PKINIT kinit
-appdefaults Allbery
+appdefaults Allbery kadmin
=head1 NAME
@@ -21,11 +21,8 @@ from the local default realm, requests new wallet keytab objects for each
principal (removing the realm when naming the keytab), and merges the new
keys into the keytab.
-If an error occurs before any new keys were downloaded, B<wallet-rekey>
-aborts. If some new keys were successfully downloaded, B<wallet-rekey>
-warns about errors but continues to rekey all principals that it can. In
-this case, a copy of the existing keytab prior to the rekeying is saved in
-a file named by appending C<.old> to the file name.
+If an error occurs, B<wallet-rekey> continues to rekey all principals that
+it can, producing error messages for those that it cannot rekey.
If no keytab file name is given on the command line, B<wallet-rekey>
attempts to rekey F</etc/krb5.keytab>, the system default keytab file.
@@ -43,8 +40,10 @@ or:
ktutil -k <keytab> purge
-for Heimdal. This functionality will eventually be provided by
-B<wallet-rekey> directly.
+for Heimdal. The Heimdal command can be run by any user with access to
+the keytab, but the MIT Kerberos command unfortunately has to be run by a
+someone with direct B<kadmin> access. This functionality will eventually
+be provided by B<wallet-rekey> directly.
=head1 OPTIONS
@@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ overrides this setting.
=head1 AUTHOR
-Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE