[MXS-3310] Amend documentation on keytab file location to mention the possibility to use the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME Created: 2020-11-26  Updated: 2021-11-16  Resolved: 2021-11-16

Status: Closed
Project: MariaDB MaxScale
Component/s: Documentation
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 2.4.19

Type: Bug Priority: Minor
Reporter: Claudio Nanni Assignee: markus makela
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: None


 Description   

Documentation page:

https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/2.5/Documentation/Authenticators/GSSAPI-Authenticator.md

Currently the page says: "The keytab file must be placed in the configured default location which almost always is /etc/krb5.keytab."

It has been tested that setting the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME works as expected and documented here:

https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/basic/keytab_def.html

I think it would be useful to mention that in the documentation, this allows users to know they can use custom paths for they keytab file.



 Comments   
Comment by markus makela [ 2021-10-11 ]

Changing to a bug since it's better suited as one instead of being a generic task.

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