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/usr/bin/kadmind

The KDC and related programs for Kerberos 5

From krb5-server 1.22.2-r6 (os), captured 2026-11-06 by running kadmind --help (exit 1). permalink

Usage: kadmind [-x db_args]* [-r realm] [-m] [-nofork] [-port port-number]
		[-proponly] [-p path-to-kdb5_util] [-F dump-file]
		[-K path-to-kprop] [-k kprop-port] [-P pid_file]

where,
	[-x db_args]* - any number of database specific arguments.
			Look at each database documentation for supported arguments
Options (11)
OptionDescriptionSource
-r realmspecifies the realm that kadmind will serve;man
-mcauses the master database password to be fetched from the keyboard (before the server puts itself in the background, if not invoked with the -nofork option) rather than from a file on disk.man
-noforkcauses the server to remain in the foreground and remain associated to the terminal.man
-proponlycauses the server to only listen and respond to Kerberos replica incremental propagation polling requests.man
-port port-numberspecifies the port on which the administration server listens for connections.man
-P pid_filespecifies the file to which the PID of kadmind process should be written after it starts up.man
-p kdb5_util_pathspecifies the path to the kdb5_util command to use when dumping the KDB in response to full resync requests when iprop is enabled.man
-K kprop_pathspecifies the path to the kprop command to use to send full dumps to replicas in response to full resync requests.man
-k kprop_portspecifies the port by which the kprop process that is spawned by kadmind connects to the replica kpropd, in order to transfer the dump file during an iprop full resync request.man
-F dump_filespecifies the file path to be used for dumping the KDB in response to full resync requests when iprop is enabled.man
-x db_argsspecifies database-specific arguments.man

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