KPASSWD(1)                                             KPASSWD(1)



NAME
       kpasswd - change a user's Kerberos password

SYNOPSIS
       kpasswd [principal]

DESCRIPTION
       The  kpasswd  command is used to change a Kerberos princi-
       pal'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  the  system  default ccache if there is
              one; if not, the  principal  is  derived  from  the
              identity  of the user invoking the kpasswd command.

PORTS
       kpasswd looks first for kpasswd_server = host:port in  the
       [realms]  section  of  the edu.mit.Kerberos file under the
       current realm.  If that is missing, kpasswd looks for  the
       admin_server entry, but substitutes 464 for the port.

SEE ALSO
       kinit(1), klist(1), kdestroy(1), kswitch(1)



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