NAME

       afppasswd - netatalk password maintenance utility

SYNOPSIS

       afppasswd [-acfn] [-p passwd file] [-u minimum uid]

DESCRIPTION

       afppasswd allows the maintenance of afppasswd files created by netatalk for use by the
       uams_randnum.so UAM (providing the "Randnum exchange" and "2-Way Randnum exchange" User
       Authentication Modules).

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

           Note
           With this utility you can only change the passwords used by two specific UAMs. As they
           provide only weak password encryption, the use of the "Randnum exchange" and "2-Way
           Randnum exchange" UAMs is deprecated unless one has to support very old AFP clients,
           that can not deal with the more secure "DHCAST128" and "DHX2" UAM instead. Please
           compare with the Authentication chapter inside Netatalk's documentation.

EXAMPLE

       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.

SEE ALSO

       afpd(8), afp.conf(5).

AUTHOR

       See CONTRIBUTORS[1]

NOTES

        1. CONTRIBUTORS
           https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS