Changing passwords in MS KDC from MIT krb5

Douglas E. Engert deengert at anl.gov
Tue May 7 09:59:01 EDT 2002


Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:
> 
> I believe the kpasswd utility in MIT 1.2.X (src/clients/kpasswd)
> will work for changing passwords on a Microsoft AD server.
> 
> However, there is some confusion in the MIT distrib. because
> there are actually 3 utilities for password changing:
> 
> 1.  kpasswd - built under src/clients/kpasswd
> 2.  kpasswd - built under src/kadmin/passwd
> 3.  kadmin - built under src/kadmin/cli

The WIN32 krb5.exe from
  kfw-2.1.2\athena\auth\krb5\src\windows\cns
also works against the W2K AD. 


> 
> Only #1 works for changing passwords on an MS AD server,
> the other 2 use the OpenVision Auth-GSS stuff which is not
> compatible with Microsoft's supported password changing
> protocol.
> 
> While #1 does not exactly support the full IETF proposal for
> passwd set/change, it does support just enough to allow a user
> to change their password on an AD server.
> 
> -Wyllys Ingersoll
> 
> Sam Hartman wrote:
> > MIt does not and probably never will support this RFC.  It is a
> > Microsoft specific extension to the set password protocol.  There is a
> > standards track protocol under discussion in the Kerberos working
> > group of the IETF that MIT will likely support once the protocol is
> > completed.
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