rpasswdd(8)
NAME
rpasswdd - remote password update daemon
SYNOPSIS
rpasswdd [-4|-6] [-d] [-c certificate] [-k privatekey] [-p
port]
DESCRIPTION
rpasswdd is a daemon that lets users change their pass
words in the presence of a directory service like NIS,
NIS+ or LDAP over a secure SSL connection. rpasswdd
behaves like the normal passwd(1) program and uses PAM for
authentification and changing the password, so it can be
configured very flexibel for the local requirements.
A normal user may only change the password for their own
account, if the user knows the password of the administra
tor account (in the moment this is the root password on
the server), he may change the password for any account if
he calls rpasswd with the -a option.
OPTIONS
- -d, --debug
- Causes the server to run in debugging mode. Nor
mally, rpasswdd reports only errors using the sys log(3) facility. In debug mode, the server does not
background itself and prints extra status messages
to stderr for each request that it revceives. - -c, --certificate certificate
- Specify another file which contains the certificate
than /etc/rpasswdd.pem. - -k, --privatekey privatekey
- Specify another file which contains the private key
than /etc/rpasswdd.pem. - -p, --port port number
- Specify another port where the daemon will listen
on for requests. - -4 rpasswdd will only accept IPv4 connections.
- -6 rpasswd will accept IPv4 and IPv6 connections.
FILES
/etc/pam.d/rpasswd - the PAM configuration file
/etc/rpasswdd.pem - contains the certificate and private
key
SEE ALSO
passwd(1), passwd(5), rpasswd(1)
AUTHOR
- Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>