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 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 successfully 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	char-
       acters.)

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
	      identity of the user invoking the kpasswd command.

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

SEE ALSO
       kadmin(8), kadmind(8)

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



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