1.. _kpasswd(1): 2 3kpasswd 4======= 5 6SYNOPSIS 7-------- 8 9**kpasswd** [*principal*] 10 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14 15The kpasswd command is used to change a Kerberos principal's password. 16kpasswd first prompts for the current Kerberos password, then prompts 17the user twice for the new password, and the password is changed. 18 19If the principal is governed by a policy that specifies the length 20and/or number of character classes required in the new password, the 21new password must conform to the policy. (The five character classes 22are lower case, upper case, numbers, punctuation, and all other 23characters.) 24 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28 29*principal* 30 Change the password for the Kerberos principal principal. 31 Otherwise, kpasswd uses the principal name from an existing ccache 32 if there is one; if not, the principal is derived from the 33 identity of the user invoking the kpasswd command. 34 35 36ENVIRONMENT 37----------- 38 39See :ref:`kerberos(7)` for a description of Kerberos environment 40variables. 41 42 43SEE ALSO 44-------- 45 46:ref:`kadmin(1)`, :ref:`kadmind(8)`, :ref:`kerberos(7)` 47