kpasswd - change a user's Kerberos password
kpasswd [principal]
KPASSWD(1) MIT Kerberos KPASSWD(1)
NAME
kpasswd - change a user's Kerberos password
SYNOPSIS
kpasswd [principal]
DESCRIPTION
The kpasswd command is used to change a Kerberos principal's password.
kpasswd first prompts for the current Kerberos password, then prompts
the user 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.)
OPTIONS
principal
Change the password for the Kerberos principal principal. Oth-
erwise, kpasswd uses the principal name from an existing ccache
if there is one; if not, the principal is derived from the iden-
tity of the user invoking the kpasswd command.
ENVIRONMENT
See kerberos(7) for a description of Kerberos environment variables.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------------+
|Availability | security/kerberos-5 |
+---------------+------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through committed |
+---------------+------------------------+
SEE ALSO
kadmin(1), kadmind(8), kerberos(7)
AUTHOR
MIT
COPYRIGHT
1985-2021, MIT
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://web.mit.edu/ker-
beros/dist/krb5/1.18/krb5-1.18.4.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/.
1.18.4 KPASSWD(1)