krb5kdc is the daemon that runs on the master and slave KDCs to process the Kerberos tickets. For Kerberos to function properly, krb5kdc must be running on at least one KDC that the Kerberos clients can access. Prior to running krb5kdc, you must initialize the Kerberos database using kdb5_util(1M). See the Solaris System Administration Guide, Security Services or instructions on setting up KDCs and initialize the Kerberos database.

The following options are supported:

-d dbpath

Specify the path to the database; default value is /var/krb5.

-r realm

Specify the realm name; default is the local realm name.

-R replaycachename

Specify the replay cache name; default value is krb5kdc_rcache.

-m

Specify that the master key for the database is to be entered manually.

-k masterenctype

Specify the encryption type for encrypting the database. The default value is des-cbc-crc.

-M masterkeyname

Specify the principal to retrieve the master key for the database.

-p port

Specify the port that will be used by the KDC to listen for incoming requests.

-n

Specify that krb5kdc should not detach from the terminal.

/var/krb5/principal.db

Kerberos principal database.

/var/krb5/principal.kadm5

Kerberos administrative database. This file contains policy information.

/var/krb5/principal.kadm5.lock

Kerberos administrative database lock file. This file works backwards from most other lock files (that is, kadmin will exit with an error if this file does not exist).

/etc/krb5/kdc.conf

KDC configuration file. This file is read at startup.

/etc/krb5/kpropd.acl

File that defines the access control list for propagating the Kerberos database using kprop.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

kpasswd(1), gkadmin(1M), kadmind(1M), kadmin.local(1M), kdb5_util(1M), kadm5.acl(4), kdc.conf(4), attributes(5), SEAM(5)

Solaris System Administration Guide, Security Services