NAME

krb5_admind — kerberos administration daemon

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

krb5_admind is the daemon end of the kerberos administrative service. It expects to be spawned as an inetd-style service via knc(1).

krb5_admind when invoked will allow the client to create, fetch, change or remove keys. It uses a simple ACL logic, namely that host/<hostname> is entitled to perform requests for <service>/<hostname>. Some additional limitations on the target principal may be defined.

The options are as follows:

-D kdb

specifies the location of the Kerberos DB. Defaults to the location built into the Kerberos libriares.

-M

specifies that the master is the current host. Should be used only for setting up test servers.

-P

specifies that krb5_admind will run in preforked mode, that is krb5_admind will expect that fd 0 will be a listening socket and will serially accept and process incoming connexions.

-S sqlitedb

specifies the location of the sqlite3 adjunct database where krb5_admind stores its additional schemas.

-a acl_file

specifies the location of the ACL file. Defaults to /etc/krb5/krb5_admin.acl.

-c conf_file

specifies the location of the configuration file. Defaults to /etc/krb5/krb5_admind.conf.

-m master

specifies the hostname of the master KDC. If a KDC which is not the master is asked to perform a write operation it will deliver a redirect to the client which will break the connexion and reconnect to the master. Defaults to /etc/krb5/master.

SEE ALSO

knc(1), krb5_admind.conf(5), krb5_keytab(8).