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 @LOCALSTATEDIR@/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

3 releases since FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 15.0
  2. 15.1–16.0

Author

MIT

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.