From: Jon Rochlis <jon@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1993 21:41:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add warning about shuting down the admin server durning db_imports
X-Git-Tag: krb5-1.0-beta3~164
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7be89433d84baa19411718242feaabdad10f992;p=krb5.git

add warning about shuting down the admin server durning db_imports

git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@2797 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
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diff --git a/doc/kadm5/api-funcspec.tex b/doc/kadm5/api-funcspec.tex
index 89e942884..57545699d 100644
--- a/doc/kadm5/api-funcspec.tex
+++ b/doc/kadm5/api-funcspec.tex
@@ -1233,6 +1233,12 @@ principal and realm name.  ``none'' means no salt, which is compatible
 with Kerberos V4.  ``keep'' means maintain the previous salt when a
 key is changed.
 
+If the either admin principal or policy databases are reloaded using
+the tools described in section \ref{sec:tools}, the admin server must
+be shut down during the process.  If the admin server is left running
+during the import process, at best the server may use old information
+and at worst the database may become inconsistent.
+
 \subsection{Protocol and Port Number}
 
 The admin server accepts TCP Sun RPC connections.  The port number
@@ -1393,6 +1399,7 @@ admin@REALM.COM, addr = 192.231.148.12
 \end{itemize}
 
 \section{Tools}
+\label{sec:tools}
 
 Three tools will be provided to create and manage the admin databases.
 This need only run on the admin server machine and do not need to