v5passwdd supports password change requests from the
v5passwd client using the older administrative protocol. It is provided solely for
backward compatibility with clients that use this protocol (mostly old
terminal servers) and should not be run for any new installation. If you
are not upgrading an old, existing installation, you don't want to use
this program.
As of October, 2003, MIT announced the end of life for this server. When
the Kerberos community was asked for feedback, no one was using this
service who could not use the more modern Kerberos password changing
protocol to accomplish the same goal. Sites using this server should
switch to kadmind and the corresponding kpasswd and kadmin client
utilities.
OPTIONS
-Dlevel
Set the debugging level to
level .
-rrealm
Specify a different Kerberos realm than the default.
-Tkeytab
Specify a different location for the keytab for the principal used to
verify client requests.
-m
Prompt for the master key of the KDC database rather than reading it from
a file.
-nofork
Don't fork and background when starting.
-portport
Start on a different port than the default.
port must be numeric.