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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 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.

PORTS
       kpasswd looks first for kpasswd_server = host:port in the [realms] sec‐
       tion  of	 the krb5.conf file under the current realm.  If that is miss‐
       ing, 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.

								    KPASSWD(1)

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