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7 .TH KINIT 1 "Kerberos Version 4.0" "MIT Project Athena"
9 kinit \- Kerberos login utility
18 command is used to login to the
20 authentication and authorization system.
21 Note that only registered
26 For information about registering as a
33 If you are logged in to a workstation that is running the
36 you do not have to use
40 login procedure will log you into
45 only in those situations in which
46 your original tickets have expired.
47 (Tickets expire in about a day.)
50 will automatically destroy your tickets when you logout from the workstation.
56 prompts for your username and Kerberos password,
57 and tries to authenticate your login with the local
63 authenticates the login attempt,
65 retrieves your initial ticket and puts it in the ticket file specified by
66 your KRBTKFILE environment variable.
67 If this variable is undefined,
68 your ticket will be stored in the
75 specifies your user identification number.
77 If you have logged in to
79 without the benefit of the workstation
84 command to destroy any active tickets before you end your login session.
85 You may want to put the
89 file so that your tickets will be destroyed automatically when you logout.
106 This option lets you authenticate yourself with a remote
113 prints the realm you are in, the name of the ticket file used, and
114 a status message indicating the success or failure of
119 prompts you for a ticket lifetime in minutes. Due to protocol
120 restrictions in Kerberos Version 4, this value must be between 5 and
125 will acquires a ticket for chpass.kerberos.
128 kerberos(1), kdestroy(1), klist(1), toehold(1)
132 option has not been fully implemented.
134 Steve Miller, MIT Project Athena/Digital Equipment Corporation
136 Clifford Neuman, MIT Project Athena