From ec393f2049ce93ec80515b3c32cb3a75f82b81da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Love=20H=C3=B6rnquist=20=C3=85strand?= Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:16:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] document --random-key and the need to do backup of the master key git-svn-id: svn://svn.h5l.se/heimdal/trunk/heimdal@14378 ec53bebd-3082-4978-b11e-865c3cabbd6b --- doc/setup.texi | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/setup.texi b/doc/setup.texi index a868ac41b..ae6b1ca03 100644 --- a/doc/setup.texi +++ b/doc/setup.texi @@ -123,6 +123,13 @@ Master key: Verifying password - Master key: @end example +If you want to generate a random master key you can use the +--random-key to kstash. This will make sure you have a good key +attackers can't do a dictionary attack on the master key. + +If you have a master key, make sure you make a backup of your master +key file, without it, backups of the database is of no use. + To initialise the database use the @code{kadmin} program, with the @samp{-l} option (to enable local database mode). First issue a @kbd{init MY.REALM} command. This will create the database and insert