---
name: "kas_help"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "openafs-kpasswd"
version: "1.6.20-2+deb9u2"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kas_help"
---

# kas\_help(8)

Displays help for kas commands

## NAME

kas\_help - Displays help for kas commands

## SYNOPSIS

**kas help** \[**-topic** \<*help string*\>+\] \[**-help**\]

**kas h** \[**-t** \<*help string*\>+\] \[**-h**\]

## DESCRIPTION

The **kas help** command displays the complete online help entry (short description and syntax statement) for each command operation code specified by the **-topic** argument. If the **-topic** argument is omitted, the output includes the first line (name and short description) of the online help entry for every **kas** command.

To list every kas command whose name or short description includes a specified keyword, use the **kas apropos** command.

## OPTIONS

- **-topic** \<*help string*\>+

  Indicates each command for which to display the complete online help entry. Omit the **kas** part of the command name, providing only the operation code (for example, specify **setpassword**, not **kas** **setpassword**). If this argument is omitted, the output briefly describes every **kas** command.

- **-help**

  Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

## OUTPUT

The online help entry for each **kas** command consists of the following two or three lines:

- •

  The first line names the command and briefly describes its function.

- •

  The second line lists aliases for the command, if any.

- •

  The final line, which begins with the string `"Usage"`, lists the command's options in the prescribed order. Online help entries use the same symbols (for example, brackets) as the reference pages in this document.

## EXAMPLES

The following command displays the online help entry for the **kas** **setpassword** command:

```
   % kas help setpassword
   kas setpassword: set a user's password
   aliases: sp
   Usage: kas setpassword -name <name of user>
   [-new_password <new password>] [-kvno <key version number>]
   [-admin_username <admin principal to use for authentication>]
   [-password_for_admin <password>] [-cell <cell name>]
   [-servers <explicit list of authentication servers>+] [-help]
```

## PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

None, and no password is required.

## SEE ALSO

[*kas*(8)](/kas/8.md), [*kas\_apropos*(8)](/kas_apropos/8.md)

## COPYRIGHT

IBM Corporation 2000. \<http://www.ibm.com/\> All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0.  It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.