kprop(8)

kprop8

Propagate a kerberos v5 principal database to a replica server

Usage

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

Overview

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/lib/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.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0–6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

-P since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -d since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -f since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -r since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -s since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

-force until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -realm until Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

MIT

From krb5 1.22.2-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.