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Bug 1643433

Summary:	[docs] Kerberos manpages for { krb5kdc, kadmin, kadmin.local, kdb5_util, ... } lack description of environment variables
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Patrik Kis <pkis>
Component:	krb5	Assignee:	Robbie Harwood <rharwood>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Filip Dvorak <fdvorak>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	dpal, pkis
Target Milestone:	rc	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release:	8.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
URL:	https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/861
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	krb5-1.17-1.el8	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1143767	Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-11-05 21:29:55 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1143767, 1682282
Bug Blocks:	1704726

Description Patrik Kis 2018-10-26 08:51:11 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1143767 +++

Description of problem:
While working on test infrastructure for Kerberos5 I came across a weired error:
-- snip --
kadmin.local:  Couldn't open log file /var/log/kadmind.log: Permission denied
-- snip --
At first this was confusing because I have a custom KRB5_KDC_PROFILE which explicitly use a script-defined location for such logs and not /var/log/ ...
... after some digging someone on IRC pointed out that kadmin/kadmind and other tools also source KRB5_CONFIG ... or if not present the default location /etc/krb5.conf ... which contained such a reference.
Problem is... this is not documented in the manpage.

Proposed fix:
Add a section "ENVIRONMENT" (like the POSIX manual pages have) to the manpages of the affected utilities (e.g. krb5kdc, kadmin, kadmin.local, kdb5_util, etc.) which lists the environment variables { KRB5_KDC_PROFILE, KRB5_CONFIG, ... }, the order in which they are sourced and the builtin default values if the variables are not set.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:29:55 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3516