AFPPASSWD(1)

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

Administrator initializing afppasswd file and adding a new user:

    example% sudo afppasswd -c
    example% sudo afppasswd -a newuser
    Enter NEW AFP password: (hidden)
    Enter NEW AFP password again: (hidden)
    afppasswd: updated password.

Note that newuser must already exist as a local system user.

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)