Reference Manual (GNU Shishi 1.0.3)

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4 Reference Manual

This chapter discuss the underlying assumptions of Kerberos, contain a glossary to Kerberos concepts, give you background information on choosing realm and principal names, and describe all parameters and configuration file syntaxes for the Shishi tools.

• Environmental Assumptions Kerberos 5 assumptions about your system.

• Glossary of terms Glossary of Kerberos related terminology.

• Realm and Principal Naming How to name your realm and principals.

• Shishi Configuration Explains the Core Shishi configuration file.

• Shisa Configuration Explains the Shisa database definition file.

• Parameters for shishi Command line parameters for ’shishi’.

• Parameters for shishid Command line parameters for ’shishid’.

• Parameters for shisa Command line parameters for ’shisa’.

• Environment variables Overriding compile-time defaults at run-time.

• Date input formats Details of the understood date formats.