[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 738 default.conf man page

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Wed Feb 23 16:56:56 UTC 2011


David O'Brien wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> David O'Brien wrote:
>>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>> Add a man page for the IPA configuration file default.conf.
>>>>
>>>> ticket 969
>>>>
>>>> rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>> NACK
>>>
>>> A few too many typos and other errors.
>>>
>>> "Spaces between the equals sign are ignored."
>>> Do you mean, "Spaces surrounding equals signs are ignored."?
>>>
>>> +Specifies the base DN to use when performan LDAP operations.
>>> performing
>>>
>>> +Specfies the secure CA agent port. The defauilt is 9443.
>>> Specifies
>>> default
>>>
>>> +Specifies the unsecure CA end user port. The default is 9190.
>>> insecure
>>>
>>> "For example. if you want to always perform client requests in verbose
>>> mode but do not want to have verbose enabled on the server add the
>>> verbose option to \fI/etc/ipa/cli.conf\fR."
>>> comma after "example", not a period.
>>> add a comma after "enabled on the server"
>>>
>>> +Specifies whether the CA is acting is an RA agent,
>>> as an RA agent
>>>
>>> "+Specifies the name of the CA backend to use. The current options are
>>> \fBselfsign\fR and \fBdogtag\fR. This is a server\-side setting.
>>> Changing this value is not recommended as the CA backend is only set up
>>> during ininitial installation."
>>> s/backend/back end/
>>> s/selfsign/self-sign/
>>> s/ininitial/initial/
>>>
>>> +Specifies the kerberos realm.
>>> Kerberos
>>>
>>> "...and show the server(s) the client contacts."
>>> s/server(s)/servers/
>>>
>>> +user IPA configurationf ile
>>> configuration file
>>>
>>> "+Optional configuration files used in a particular context are. The
>>> value of mode is used to attempt to load these files, if they exist:"
>>> I'm not sure what this means
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Fixes applied.
>>
>> rob
>
> +Specfies the secure CA agent port. The default is 9443.
> Specifies
>
> "Changing this value is not recommended as the CA backend is only set up
> during initial installation."
> s/backend/back end/
>
> "+Optional configuration files used in a particular context are. The
> value of the context setting (\fBcli\fR or \fBserver\fR) is used to
> attempt to load these files, if they exist:"
>
> I still don't understand this. Bear in mind that I'm reading the raw
> patch; I haven't applied it or tried to format this as a man page. Maybe
> that would help.
>
> Everything else is fine. ACK with those couple of fixes.
>
> /dob

Fixed, pushed to master.

I added a bit more discussion about the context-specific files. I think 
it is clearer now.

rob




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