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36 .Dt VERIFY_KRB5_CONF 8
40 .Nd checks krb5.conf for obvious errors
46 reads the configuration file
48 or the file given on the command line,
49 and parses it, thereby verifying that the syntax is not correctly wrong.
51 If the file is syntactically correct,
53 tries to verify that the contents of the file is of relevant nature.
56 points to the configuration file to read.
58 .Bl -tag -width /etc/krb5.conf -compact
60 Kerberos 5 configuration file
66 .Bl -tag -width "FpathF"
67 .It "<path>: failed to parse <something> as size/time/number/boolean"
68 Usually means that <something> is misspelled, or that it contains
69 weird characters. The parsing done by
71 is more strict than the one performed by libkrb5, so strings that
72 work in real life might be reported as bad.
73 .It "<path>: host not found (<hostname>)"
74 Means that <path> is supposed to point to a host, but it can't be
76 .It <path>: unknown or wrong type
77 Means that <path> is either a string when it should be a list, vice
81 .It <path>: unknown entry
82 Means that <string> is not known by
88 Since each application can put almost anything in the config file,
89 it's hard to come up with a watertight verification process. Most of
90 the default settings are sanity checked, but this does not mean that
91 every problem is discovered, or that everything that is reported as a
92 possible problem actually is one. This tool should thus be used with
95 It should warn about obsolete data, or bad practice, but currently