[OpenAFS] Changing AFS passwords in Windows

[Rubino Geiß]

from command line:

	kpasswd -cell XXX -principal YYY 

will do it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org 
> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sebby
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:17 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Changing AFS passwords in Windows
> 
> 
> In our cell, we are still using the v4 kaserver for AFS 
> passwords (though we are moving towards strictly v5 based 
> passwords).  Today, I was trying to help one of our Windows 
> users change his password, at which point I discovered that 
> there's no easy way to do this in Windows.
> 
> The only way I could find was to load up the Account Manager 
> from the Control Center as my admin user, and then click on 
> my user name and use the "Change Password" option.  However, 
> I could not get it to display my account information when I 
> attempted to login as my user account.  (I was expecting it 
> would at least show my account.)  In addition, I found the 
> Account Manager to be slow, and it seems like it's more of an 
> administrative tool than a user tool.
> 
> Are there any other methods of changing the AFS password in 
> Windows, or has anyone written a front end GUI to the system? 
>  I tried using the command line kpasswd tool provided, but it 
> couldn't seem to find my cell name or DNS addresses for the 
> AFS servers.  I eventually had to show the user how to log 
> onto our Unix system to run kpasswd there, but I'd like to 
> avoid this for our Windows users.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
> 
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