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Within a kadmin.local prompt, the only way to include spaces in an argument is to use a double-quoted string: cpw -pw &quot;space in the password&quot; user<br />
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Double quotes can be included in such a password by repeating them: cpw -pw &quot;spaces and &quot;&quot;quotes&quot;&quot; in the password&quot; user<br />
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Starting with release 1.14, you can also specify a command on the kadmin.local command line, and let the shell separate arguments: kadmin.local cpw -pw &#39;space in the password&#39; user<br />
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The kadmin man page doesn&#39;t appear to document quoted arguments (other than the command-line option I mentioned last), so I&#39;ll leave this ticket open and change its subject to indicate that the documentation should be amended.<br />
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ktutil uses the same library as kadmin to handle argument parsing, and also needs its man page amended.