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26 kpasswd \- change a user's Kerberos password
34 command is used to change a Kerberos principal's password.
36 prompts for the current Kerberos password, which is used to obtain a
40 for the user's Kerberos realm. If
42 successfully obtains the
44 ticket, the user is prompted twice for the new password, and the
47 If the principal is governed by a policy that specifies the length and/or
48 number of character classes required in the new password, the new
49 password must conform to the policy. (The five character classes are
50 lower case, upper case, numbers, punctuation, and all other characters.)
54 change the password for the Kerberos principal
58 uses the principal name from an existing ccache if there is one; if
59 not, the principal is derived from the identity of the user
65 looks first for kpasswd_server = host:port in the [realms] section of
66 the krb5.conf file under the current realm. If that is missing,
68 looks for the admin_server entry, but substitutes 464 for the port.
74 may not work with multi-homed hosts running on the Solaris platform.