kerberos - Kadmin does not work

[arun elango]

Hi Ben,

Thanks.

Yes , Kpasswd can be used . But it requires users interaction in the
console , I am looking for other methods wherein users dont need to enter
their passwords in the console. i.e pass the parameters to the kpasswd
console programatically .

However , I heard from one of the members in the mailing list that it is
not possible to avoid user interaction. See below for our interaction.

Regards,
AK


arun elango <arunelango89 at gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible to use kpasswd without user interaction i:e not having
> user to enter their password in the console.

Oh, that's actually a legitimate cause of that error message.  Okay.

It's not possible to use *kpasswd* without user interaction, but it's
definitely possible to use the underlying call to change a user's password
without interaction.  Look at kadmin, particularly kadmin change_password.

kerberos at mit.edu can help further with that.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, arun elango wrote:
>
> > Hi Ben Kaduk,
> >
> > Thanks for the information.
> >
> > Is there any other method to implement change password other than the
> > Kpasswd utility for Windows.
>
> kpasswd.exe is a way to do it, and the MIT Kerberos.exe ticket manager
> also provides password-change functionality.  I don't know of a different
> one, offhand.
>
> -Ben
>
> P.S. any reason to remove the list from the CC?  It's generally good to
> archive questions and answers so that they can be found in the future.
>
> -Ben
>