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Document KDC TCP listener change
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Update documentation to reflect the change in the default KDC TCP
listener behavior, new in 1.13.

ticket: 6731
target_version: 1.13
tags: pullup
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tlyu committed Sep 16, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -252,13 +252,11 @@ The following tags may be specified in a [realms] subsection:
**kdc_tcp_ports**
(Whitespace- or comma-separated list.) Lists the ports on which
the Kerberos server should listen for TCP connections, as a
comma-separated list of integers. If this relation is not
specified, the compiled-in default is not to listen for TCP
connections at all.

If you wish to change this (note that the current implementation
has little protection against denial-of-service attacks), the
standard port number assigned for Kerberos TCP traffic is port 88.
comma-separated list of integers. To disable listening on TCP,
set this relation to the empty string with ``kdc_tcp_ports = ""``.
If this relation is not specified, the default is to listen on TCP
port 88 (the standard port). Prior to release 1.13, the default
was not to listen for TCP connections at all.

**master_key_name**
(String.) Specifies the name of the principal associated with the
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