MIT Kerberos Documentation

kprop

SYNOPSIS

kprop [-r realm] [-f file] [-d] [-P port] [-s keytab] slave_host

DESCRIPTION

kprop is used to securely propagate a Kerberos V5 database dump file from the master Kerberos server to a slave Kerberos server, which is specified by slave_host. The dump file must be created by kdb5_util.

OPTIONS

-r realm
Specifies the realm of the master server.
-f file
Specifies the filename where the dumped principal database file is to be found; by default the dumped database file is normally LOCALSTATEDIR/krb5kdc/slave_datatrans.
-P port
Specifies the port to use to contact the kpropd server on the remote host.
-d
Prints debugging information.
-s keytab
Specifies the location of the keytab file.

ENVIRONMENT

kprop uses the following environment variable:

  • KRB5_CONFIG