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rpasswdd(8)							   rpasswdd(8)

NAME
       rpasswdd - remote password update daemon

SYNOPSIS
       rpasswdd	 [-4|-6]  [-d]	[-c  certificate]  [-k	privatekey]  [-p port]
       [--slp] [--slp-timeout timeout] [--slp-descr description]

DESCRIPTION
       rpasswdd is a daemon that lets users  change  their  passwords  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 administrator 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. Normally, rpasswdd
	      reports only errors using the syslog(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.

       --slp  Register rpasswd service at local SLP server.

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>

pwdutils			 January 2004			   rpasswdd(8)

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