FYI, if these are accounts that you'd provide with keytabs, such that no passwords need be entered interactively in order for the systems to run, then you may be interested in Roland Dowdeswell's krb5_admin and krb5_keytab software, which you can find here: https://github.com/elric1/krb5_admin https://github.com/elric1/krb5_keytab Nico --