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/usr/bin/string2key

Implementation of Kerberos 5

From heimdal 7.8.0-r55 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running string2key --help (exit 0). permalink

Usage: string2key [-54a] [--version5] [--version4] [--afs] [--cell=cell] [-c cell]
   [--password=password] [-w password] [--principal=principal] [-p principal] [--keytype=string]
   [-k string] [--version] [--help] password
-5, --version5                      Output Kerberos v5 string-to-key
-4, --version4                      Output Kerberos v4 string-to-key
-a, --afs                           Output AFS string-to-key
-c cell, --cell=cell                AFS cell to use
-w password, --password=password    Password to use
-p principal, --principal=principal Kerberos v5 principal to use
-k string, --keytype=string         Keytype
--version                           print version
Options (9)
OptionDescriptionSource
-5, --version5Output Kerberos v5 string-to-keyhelp + man
-4, --version4Output Kerberos v4 string-to-keyhelp + man
-a, --afsOutput AFS string-to-keyhelp + man
-c, --cell cellAFS cell to usehelp + man
-w, --password passwordPassword to usehelp + man
-k, --keytype stringKeytypehelp + man
--versionprint versionhelp + man
-p, --principal principalKerberos v5 principal to use (in the manual page but not in --help)man
--helpMarch 4, 2000 HEIMDAL (in the manual page but not in --help)man

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.