[DOCS-11500] Add suggestion on how to preserve KRB5_KTNAME on systemd-based Linux distros Created: 28/Mar/18 Updated: 30/Oct/23 Resolved: 24/Aug/22 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Documentation |
| Component/s: | Server |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | Server_Docs_20231030 |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | Dmitry Ryabtsev | Assignee: | Dave Cuthbert (Inactive) |
| Resolution: | Fixed | Votes: | 1 |
| Labels: | kerberos | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Participants: | |
| Days since reply: | 1 year, 22 weeks, 1 day ago |
| Epic Link: | DOCSP-1769 |
| Story Points: | 1 |
| Description |
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In the documentation section that talks about configuring MongoDB for Kerberos authentication on Linux we have the following suggestion:
This is rather outdated suggestion since most of the modern Linux distros (Ubuntu 16, RHEL 7) have switched from init/upstart scripts to systemd unit files. Our packages that we ship for these distros deploy the appropriate unit files. The highlighted recommendation cannot be applied there. In order to preserve the value of the KRB5_KTNAME environment variable on such hosts the user should modify the unit files. We should update our documentation so it would explain how it can be done:
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| Comments |
| Comment by Githook User [ 06/Sep/22 ] |
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Author: {'name': 'Dave Cuthbert', 'email': '69165704+davemungo@users.noreply.github.com', 'username': 'davemungo'}Message: DOCS_11500 set KRB5_KTNAME on systemd v6.0 (#1685)
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| Comment by Githook User [ 24/Aug/22 ] |
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Author: {'name': 'Dave Cuthbert', 'email': '69165704+davemungo@users.noreply.github.com', 'username': 'davemungo'}Message: |
| Comment by Githook User [ 24/Aug/22 ] |
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Author: {'name': 'Dave Cuthbert', 'email': '69165704+davemungo@users.noreply.github.com', 'username': 'davemungo'}Message: DOCS_11500 set KRB5_KTNAME on systemd v6.0 (#1685)
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