Global Operations on the Kerberos Database
The kdb5_util command is the primary tool for administrating the
Kerberos database. The syntax is:
kdb5_util command [kdb5_util_options] [command_options]
The kdb5_util command takes the following options, which override
the defaults specified in the configuration files:
- -r realm
- specifies the the Kerberos realm of the database.
- -d database_name
- specifies the name under which the principal database is stored.
- -k master_key_type
- specifies the key type of the master key in the database.
- -M master_key_name
- specifies the principal name of the master key in the database.
- -m
- indicates that the master database password should be read from the TTY
rather than fetched from a file on disk.
- -sf stash_file
- specifies the stash file of the master database password
- -P password
- specifies the master database password. MIT does not
recommend using this option.
