From: Theodore Tso Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 03:27:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add documentation for the clockskew and kdc_timesync relations in the X-Git-Tag: krb5-1.0-beta6~1201 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eec1b51a6bf366311659fbeed97ef3c0e2e549a5;p=krb5.git Add documentation for the clockskew and kdc_timesync relations in the libdefaults section. git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@6655 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970 --- diff --git a/src/config-files/ChangeLog b/src/config-files/ChangeLog index b5f4e415d..2a2fa8b42 100644 --- a/src/config-files/ChangeLog +++ b/src/config-files/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Fri Sep 1 23:26:46 1995 Theodore Y. Ts'o + + * krb5.conf.M: Add documentation for the clockskew and + kdc_timesync relations in the libdefaults section. + Thu Aug 24 19:24:26 1995 Theodore Y. Ts'o * .Sanitize: Update file list diff --git a/src/config-files/krb5.conf.M b/src/config-files/krb5.conf.M index 4721dcd94..0a0c00fcf 100644 --- a/src/config-files/krb5.conf.M +++ b/src/config-files/krb5.conf.M @@ -90,6 +90,18 @@ The following relations are defined in the [libdefaults] section: This relation identifies the default realm to be used in a client host's Kerberos activity. +.IP clockskew +This relation sets the maximum allowable amount of clockskew in +seconds that the library will tolerate before assuming that a Kerberos +message is invalid. The default value is 300 seconds, or five +minutes. + +.IP kdc_timesync +If the value of this relation is non-zero, the library will compute +the difference between the system clock and the time returned by the +KDC and in order to correct for an inaccurate system clock. This +corrective factor is only used by the Kerberos library. + .SH REALMS SECTION Each tag in the [realms] section of the file names a Kerberos realm.