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8 .TH KINIT 1 "Kerberos Version 4.0" "MIT Project Athena"
10 kinit \- Kerberos login utility
19 command is used to login to the
21 authentication and authorization system.
22 Note that only registered
27 For information about registering as a
34 If you are logged in to a workstation that is running the
37 you do not have to use
41 login procedure will log you into
46 only in those situations in which
47 your original tickets have expired.
48 (Tickets expire in about a day.)
51 will automatically destroy your tickets when you logout from the workstation.
57 prompts for your username and Kerberos password,
58 and tries to authenticate your login with the local
64 authenticates the login attempt,
66 retrieves your initial ticket and puts it in the ticket file specified by
67 your KRBTKFILE environment variable.
68 If this variable is undefined,
69 your ticket will be stored in the
76 specifies your user identification number.
78 If you have logged in to
80 without the benefit of the workstation
85 command to destroy any active tickets before you end your login session.
86 You may want to put the
90 file so that your tickets will be destroyed automatically when you logout.
107 This option lets you authenticate yourself with a remote
114 prints the name of the ticket file used, and
115 a status message indicating the success or failure of
120 prompts you for a ticket lifetime in minutes. Due to protocol
121 restrictions in Kerberos Version 4, this value must be between 5 and
126 will acquires a ticket for changepw.kerberos.
129 kerberos(1), kdestroy(1), klist(1), toehold(1)
133 option has not been fully implemented.
135 Steve Miller, MIT Project Athena/Digital Equipment Corporation
137 Clifford Neuman, MIT Project Athena