[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #3734: manpage for cupsd.conf mentions "Krb5Keytab" setting, but online help ("ref-cupsd-conf.html") doesnt

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Wed Dec 1 03:48:22 PST 2010


pipitas at gmail.com wrote:

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> I'm currently on a customer site. They use RHEL-5.5 with CUPS v1.3.7.
> There is a mismatch in the documentation:
> 
>  * the cupsd.conf manpage does mention the a configuration parameter:
> 
>         Krb5Keytab filename
>             Overrides the Kerberos key tab location
> 
>  * the online help in "ref-cupsd-conf.html" does not mention this.
> 
> However, I'm not sure if this Krb5Keytab parameter is a RedHat-specific
> patch. I do not find the same thing mentioned in the cupsd.conf manpage on
> a Ubuntu Maverick CUPS v1.4.4 OS. So either it was officially in CUPS
> 1.3.x (removed in 1.4.x), or it is a simple documentation weakness, or it
> was/is just a RedHat-only thing...
> 
> Which is it?
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> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3734
> Version: 1.4-current

THis keyword is no longer present in CUPS 1.4.x (in 1.3.x, it is used in 
scheduler/conf.c).

Helge





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