Section 8 · System administration
kprop.8
Package: krb5-server
KPROP
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
NAME
kprop − propagate a Kerberos V5 principal database to a replica server
SYNOPSIS
kprop [−r realm] [−f file] [−d] [−P port] [−s keytab] replica_host
DESCRIPTION
kprop is used to securely propagate a Kerberos V5 database dump file from the primary Kerberos server to a replica Kerberos server, which is specified by replica_host. The dump file must be created by kdb5_util.
OPTIONS
−r realm
Specifies the realm of the primary server.
−f file
Specifies the filename where the dumped principal database file is to be found; by default the dumped database file is normally /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/replica_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
See kerberos for a description of Kerberos environment variables.
SEE ALSO
kpropd, kdb5_util, krb5kdc, kerberos
AUTHOR
MIT
COPYRIGHT
1985-2025, MIT