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Document URL: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System-Level_Authentication_Guide/Configuring_a_Kerberos_5_Client.html

Section Number and Name: 

11.3. CONFIGURING A KERBEROS CLIENT

Describe the issue: 

In the section 11.3, the doc says [To use other Kerberos-aware network services, install the krb5-server package and start the services. The Kerberos-aware services are listed in Table 11.3, “Common Kerberos-aware Services”.]

But customer complaints that krb5-server package doesn't provide the related service file(like gssftp) in "table 11.3".

Suggestions for improvement: 

Actually in RHEL7, gssftp is provided by krb5-appl-servers package in epel channel.

It would be better to mention that in the documentation.

Additional information: 

This problem is the same in RHEL6.

Oh boy.  We really shouldn't be recommending any of the things provided by krb5-appl, not only because they're from EPEL and we shouldn't recommend those, but also because most of them have a very outdated view of security.  Users should use tools like ssh, etc. instead.

I removed krb5-appl in Fedora 27 ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1474829 ), and we very intentionally don't ship these in rhel7 already.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/system-level_authentication_guide/