Creating KDC database in a non-interactive script?

[Robert Levas]

I thought that I tried -P and it didn’t seem to work, but obviously I was incorrect. My apologies.

Thanks for the help,

Rob


On Sep 10, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 09/10/2014 09:59 AM, Robert Levas wrote:
>> It is possible to create the KDC database from an non-interactive (Linux,
>> for now) script?  I am trying to automate the installation of a KDC and am
>> failing to get past the database creation phase since kdb5_util create [-s]
>> appears to not have an option to supply the master password on the command
>> line.
> 
> It's the -P option.  It's documented in the man page but apparently not
> in the usage message; I will submit a fix.
> 
> Be aware that using the -P option can leak the master password to other
> users on the host via the process list.


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