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      kpasswd - change a user's Kerberos password
      
      kpasswd [principal]

Contents

DESCRIPTION

      The  kpasswd command is used to change a Kerberos principal's password.  Kpasswd prompts for the current Kerberos
      password, which is used to obtain a changepw ticket from the KDC for the user's Kerberos realm.  If kpasswd  suc-
      cessfully  obtains  the  changepw  ticket,  the  user is prompted twice for the new password, and the password is
      changed.
 
      If the principal is governed by a policy that specifies the length and/or number of character classes required in
      the new password, the new password must conform to the policy.  (The five character classes are lower case, upper
      case, numbers, punctuation, and all other characters.)

OPTIONS

      principal
             change the password for the Kerberos principal principal.  Otherwise, kpasswd uses the principal name from
             an  existing ccache if there is one; if not, the principal is derived from the identity of the user invok-
             ing the kpasswd command.

PORTS

      kpasswd looks first for kpasswd_server = host:port in the [realms] section of the krb5.conf file under  the  cur-
      rent realm.  If that is missing, kpasswd looks for the admin_server entry, but substitutes 464 for the port.

RELATED

      kadmin(8), kadmind(8)

BUGS

      kpasswd may not work with multi-homed hosts running on the Solaris platform.

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