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File 0120-Document-etc-gss-mech.d-.conf.patch of Package krb5

From 825e9411b4aed54490a27e1ab6775288a5076d6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?G=C3=BCnther=20Deschner?= <gdeschner@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 12:10:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Document /etc/gss/mech.d/*.conf

[ghudson@mit.edu: editorial changes]
(Cherry picked from commit 406f273e373014edc0ec31995dc82d6b7a5d73f8)
---
 doc/admin/host_config.rst |  7 +++++--
 doc/plugindev/gssapi.rst  | 12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/admin/host_config.rst b/doc/admin/host_config.rst
index b94d34f50..4bea576ac 100644
--- a/doc/admin/host_config.rst
+++ b/doc/admin/host_config.rst
@@ -85,8 +85,11 @@ locator plugin would be registered by placing its shared object in
 GSSAPI mechanism modules
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-GSSAPI mechanism module are registered using the file
-``/etc/gss/mech``.  Each line in this file has the form::
+GSSAPI mechanism modules are registered using the file
+``/etc/gss/mech`` or configuration files in the ``/etc/gss/mech.d/``
+directory.  Only files with a ``.conf`` suffix will be read from the
+``/etc/gss/mech.d/`` directory.  Each line in these files has the
+form::
 
     oid  pathname  [options]  <type>
 
diff --git a/doc/plugindev/gssapi.rst b/doc/plugindev/gssapi.rst
index bb5d6d16f..34fc9e484 100644
--- a/doc/plugindev/gssapi.rst
+++ b/doc/plugindev/gssapi.rst
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ the set of built-in mechanisms.
 
 A mechanism module is a Unix shared object or Windows DLL, built
 separately from the krb5 tree.  Modules are loaded according to the
-``/etc/gss/mech`` config file, as described in
-:ref:`gssapi_plugin_config`.
+``/etc/gss/mech`` or ``/etc/gss/mech.d/*.conf`` config files, as
+described in :ref:`gssapi_plugin_config`.
 
 For the most part, a GSSAPI mechanism module exports the same
 functions as would a GSSAPI implementation itself, with the same
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ with the following signature::
     gss_OID_set gss_mech_interposer(gss_OID mech_type);
 
 This function is invoked with the OID of the interposer mechanism as
-specified in ``/etc/gss/mech``, and returns a set of mechanism OIDs to
-be interposed.  The returned OID set must have been created using the
-mechglue's gss_create_empty_oid_set and gss_add_oid_set_member
-functions.
+specified in ``/etc/gss/mech`` or in a ``/etc/gss/mech.d/*.conf``
+file, and returns a set of mechanism OIDs to be interposed.  The
+returned OID set must have been created using the mechglue's
+gss_create_empty_oid_set and gss_add_oid_set_member functions.
 
 An interposer module must use the prefix ``gssi_`` for the GSSAPI
 functions it exports, instead of the prefix ``gss_``.
-- 
2.22.0

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