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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<refentry id="kpasswd1">
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>kpasswd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>kpasswd</refname>
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<refpurpose>Changes the issuer's password in the Authentication Database</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Synopsis</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis> [<emphasis role="bold">-x</emphasis>] [<emphasis role="bold">-principal</emphasis> <<emphasis>user name</emphasis>>]
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[<emphasis role="bold">-password</emphasis> <<emphasis>user's password</emphasis>>]
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[<emphasis role="bold">-newpassword</emphasis> <<emphasis>user's new password</emphasis>>] [<emphasis role="bold">-cell</emphasis> <<emphasis>cell name</emphasis>>]
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[<emphasis role="bold">-servers</emphasis> <<emphasis>explicit list of servers</emphasis>>+] [<emphasis role="bold">-pipe</emphasis>] [<emphasis role="bold">-help</emphasis>]</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis> [<emphasis role="bold">-x</emphasis>] [<emphasis role="bold">-pr</emphasis> <<emphasis>user name</emphasis>>] [<emphasis role="bold">-pa</emphasis> <<emphasis>user's password</emphasis>>]
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[<emphasis role="bold">-n</emphasis> <<emphasis>user's new password</emphasis>>] [<emphasis role="bold">-c</emphasis> <<emphasis>cell name</emphasis>>]
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[<emphasis role="bold">-s</emphasis> <<emphasis>explicit list of servers</emphasis>>+] [<emphasis role="bold">-pi</emphasis>] [<emphasis role="bold">-h</emphasis>]</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Description</title>
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<para>The <emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis> command changes the password recorded in an Authentication
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Database entry. By default, the command interpreter changes the password
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for the AFS user name that matches the issuer's local identity (UNIX
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UID). To specify an alternate user, include the <emphasis role="bold">-principal</emphasis>
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argument. The user named by the <emphasis role="bold">-principal</emphasis> argument does not have to
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appear in the local password file (the <replaceable>/etc/passwd</replaceable> file or equivalent).</para>
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<para>By default, the command interpreter sends the password change request to
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the Authentication Server running on one of the database server machines
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listed for the local cell in the <replaceable>/usr/afs/etc/CellServDB</replaceable> file on the
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local disk; it chooses the machine at random. It consults the
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<replaceable>/usr/vice/etc/ThisCell</replaceable> file on the local disk to learn the local cell
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name. To specify an alternate cell, include the <emphasis role="bold">-cell</emphasis> argument.</para>
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<para>Unlike the UNIX <emphasis role="bold">passwd</emphasis> command, the <emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis> command does not
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restrict passwords to eight characters or less; it accepts passwords of
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virtually any length. All AFS commands that require passwords (including
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the <emphasis role="bold">klog</emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis>, and AFS-modified login utilities, and the
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commands in the <emphasis role="bold">kas</emphasis> suite) accept passwords longer than eight
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characters, but some other applications and operating system utilities do
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not. Selecting an AFS password of eight characters or less enables the
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user to maintain matching AFS and UNIX passwords.</para>
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<para>The command interpreter makes the following checks:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>If the program <emphasis role="bold">kpwvalid</emphasis> exists in the same directory as the <emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis>
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command, the command interpreter pass the new password to it for
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verification. For details, see <link linkend="kpwvalid8">kpwvalid(8)</link>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If the <emphasis role="bold">-reuse</emphasis> argument to the kas setfields command has been used to
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prohibit reuse of previous passwords, the command interpreter verifies
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that the password is not too similar too any of the user's previous 20
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passwords. It generates the following error message at the shell:</para>
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<programlisting>
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Password was not changed because it seems like a reused password
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</programlisting>
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<para>To prevent a user from subverting this restriction by changing the
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password twenty times in quick succession (manually or by running a
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script), use the <emphasis role="bold">-minhours</emphasis> argument on the <emphasis role="bold">kaserver</emphasis> initialization
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command. The following error message appears if a user attempts to change
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a password before the minimum time has passed:</para>
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<programlisting>
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Password was not changed because you changed it too
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recently; see your systems administrator
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</programlisting>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Options</title>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">-x</emphasis></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Appears only for backwards compatibility.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">-principal</emphasis> <<emphasis>user name</emphasis>></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Names the Authentication Database entry for which to change the
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password. If this argument is omitted, the database entry with the same
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name as the issuer's local identity (UNIX UID) is changed.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">-password</emphasis> <<emphasis>user's password</emphasis>></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Specifies the current password. Omit this argument to have the command
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interpreter prompt for the password, which does not echo visibly:</para>
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<programlisting>
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Old password: current_password
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</programlisting>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">-newpassword</emphasis> <<emphasis>user's new password</emphasis>></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Specifies the new password, which the <emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis> command interpreter
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converts into an encryption key (string of octal numbers) before sending
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it to the Authentication Server for storage in the user's Authentication
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Database entry.</para>
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<para>Omit this argument to have the command interpreter prompt for the
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password, which does not echo visibly:</para>
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<programlisting>
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New password (RETURN to abort): &lt;new_password&gt;
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Retype new password: &lt;new_password&gt;
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</programlisting>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">-cell</emphasis> <<emphasis>cell name</emphasis>></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Specifies the cell in which to change the password, by directing the
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command to that cell's Authentication Servers. The issuer can abbreviate
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the cell name to the shortest form that distinguishes it from the other
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cells listed in the local <replaceable>/usr/vice/etc/CellServDB</replaceable> file.</para>
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<para>By default, the command is executed in the local cell, as defined</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>First, by the value of the environment variable AFSCELL.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Second, in the <replaceable>/usr/vice/etc/ThisCell</replaceable> file on the client machine on
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which the command is issued.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">-servers</emphasis> <<emphasis>explicit list of servers</emphasis>></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Establishes a connection with the Authentication Server running on each
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specified machine, rather than with all of the database server machines
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listed for the relevant cell in the local copy of the
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<replaceable>/usr/vice/etc/CellServDB</replaceable> file. The <emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis> command interpreter then
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sends the password-changing request to one machine chosen at random from
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the set.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">-pipe</emphasis></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Suppresses all output to the standard output stream or standard error
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stream. The <emphasis role="bold">kpasswd</emphasis> command interpreter expects to receive all
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necessary arguments, each on a separate line, from the standard input
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stream. Do not use this argument, which is provided for use by application
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programs rather than human users.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><emphasis role="bold">-help</emphasis></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are
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ignored.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Examples</title>
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<para>The following example shows user pat changing her password in the ABC
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Corporation cell.</para>
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<programlisting>
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% kpasswd
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Changing password for 'pat' in cell 'abc.com'.
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Old password:
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New password (RETURN to abort):
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Verifying, please re-enter new_password:
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</programlisting>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Privilege Required</title>
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<para>None</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para><link linkend="kas_setfields8">kas_setfields(8)</link>,
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<link linkend="kas_setpassword8">kas_setpassword(8)</link>,
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<link linkend="klog1">klog(1)</link>,
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<link linkend="kpwvalid8">kpwvalid(8)</link></para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Copyright</title>
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<para>IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.</para>
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<para>This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was
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converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ
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Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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