[Bug 900447] Re: Man 5 page for kdc.conf does not mention acceptable encryption types

[Russ Allbery]

J Sadler <900447 at bugs.launchpad.net> writes:

> You may want to reconsider adding it to kdc.conf's man page.

> I don't believe that in a normal client install that you would get the
> admin guide. Don't you only get it if you install the admin packages?

It's part of the krb5-doc package, which you will often want to install on
a client installation if you're not already deeply familiar with Kerberos.
There are lots of other things related to client configuration that are
better-documented in the texinfo manual than in the man pages.  (Man pages
aren't the greatest format for a full-blown reference manual; they don't
have very much useful structure.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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Title:
  Man 5 page for kdc.conf does not mention acceptable encryption types

Status in “krb5” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi

  It would be helpful if the man 5 page for kdc.conf could explicitly
  specify the acceptable encryption types we can use.

  Currently the only way is looking at the source code in the following file:
  /krb5-1.9.1+dfsg/src/lib/crypto/krb/etypes.c

  grep ENCTYPE_ ./krb5-1.9.1+dfsg/src/lib/crypto/krb/etypes.c
      { ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_CRC,
      { ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_MD4,
      { ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_MD5,
      { ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_RAW,
      { ENCTYPE_DES3_CBC_RAW,
      { ENCTYPE_DES3_CBC_SHA1,
      { ENCTYPE_DES_HMAC_SHA1,
      { ENCTYPE_ARCFOUR_HMAC,
      { ENCTYPE_ARCFOUR_HMAC_EXP,
      { ENCTYPE_AES128_CTS_HMAC_SHA1_96,
      { ENCTYPE_AES256_CTS_HMAC_SHA1_96,
      { ENCTYPE_CAMELLIA128_CTS_CMAC,
      { ENCTYPE_CAMELLIA256_CTS_CMAC,

  Leonardo

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: krb5-kdc 1.9.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-999-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Dec  5 14:31:49 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:
   LANG=en_US
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: krb5
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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