[4155] in Kerberos
Re: Adding Users en mass
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Friedman (510) 642-1410)
Tue Nov 8 22:47:10 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 94 09:10:11 PST
From: spgmnf@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Friedman (510) 642-1410)
In article <39o5o9$7rh@merlin.nando.net>
chall@nando.net (Charles Hall) writes:
>
>Is there an easy way to import a list of users and passwords into Kerberos?
>I tried just piping output to kadmin, but it doesn't seem to accept the
>passwords from a pipe. Am I also correct that there is no way to force
>Kerberos to show me the passwords it has in clear text? That at least might
>help me debug the pipe problem. I found "build_pwfile" on the dist. but I
>can't figure out what it does (even after reading the source!).
>
There's no *builtin* way to run kadmin in 'batch'. I had to write an expect
script to interact with kadmin. My script reads an input file of principal/
password pairs and feeds them as responses to the kadmin prompts. By its
very nature, expect (a tcl application) is well-suited to this task, since
it uses pseudo-tty's which can talk to any existing application that thinks
it's interacting with an actual terminal. Certainly kadmin, because of the
way it does password prompting, fits into this category.
