Name

       afppasswd — AFP password maintenance utility

Synopsis

       afppasswd [-acfn] [-p afppasswd file] [-u minimum uid] [-w password string]

Description

       afppasswd  creates  and maintains an afppasswd file, which supplies the user credentials for the “Randnum
       exchange” and “2-Way Randnum exchange” User Authentication Modules.

       afppasswd can either be called by root with parameters to manage all user credentials, or by local system
       users with no parameters to change their own AFP passwords.

              NOTE

              With this utility you can only change the passwords used by these two Random Number UAMs. As  they
              provide only weak password encryption, their use is discouraged unless one has to support very old
              AFP clients that can not deal with the more secure “DHX” or “DHX2” UAMs.

Examples

       Local user changing their own password:

              example% afppasswd
              Enter NEW AFP password: (hidden)
              Enter NEW AFP password again: (hidden)
              afppasswd: updated password.

Options

       -a

              Add a new user to the afppasswd file.

       -c

              Create and/or initialize afppasswd file or specific user.

       -f

              Force the current action.

       -p path

              Path to afppasswd file.

       -n

              If  cracklib  support  is  built  into  netatalk  this  option  will cause cracklib checking to be
              disabled, if the superuser does not want to have the password run against the cracklib dictionary.

       -u minimum uid

              This is the minimum user id (uid) that afppasswd will use when creating users.

       -w password string

              Use string as password, instead of typing  it  interactively.  Please  use  this  option  only  if
              absolutely necessary, since the password may remain in the terminal history in plain text.

See Also

       afpd(8), afp.conf(5)

Author

       Contributors to the Netatalk Project (https://netatalk.io/contributors)

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