[1mSYNOPSIS[0m
[1mkpasswd [22m[[4mprincipal[24m]
[1mDESCRIPTION[0m
The [4mkpasswd[24m command is used to change a Kerberos principal's password.
[4mKpasswd[24m prompts for the current Kerberos password, which is used to
obtain a [1mchangepw [22mticket from the KDC for the user's Kerberos realm.
If [1mkpasswd [22msuccessfully obtains the [1mchangepw [22mticket, 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 charac-
ters.)
[1mOPTIONS[0m
[4mprincipal[0m
change the password for the Kerberos principal [4mprincipal[24m. Oth-
erwise, the principal is derived from the identity of the user
invoking the [4mkpasswd[24m command.
[1mFILES[0m
/tmp/tkt_kadm_[pid]
temporary credentials cache for the lifetime of the
password changing operation. ([pid] is the process-
ID of the kpasswd process.)
[1mSEE ALSO[0m
kadmin(8), kadmind(8)
[1mBUGS[0m
If [1mkpasswd [22mis suspended, the changepw tickets may not be destroyed.
KPASSWD(1)
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