HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

kinit(1) kinit(1)

principal Uses the principal name from an existing cache if there is one.

kinit supports the [appdefaults]

section. The relationships speciﬁed here can be over-ridden by

the command-line options. The following relationships are supported by

kinit in the [appdefaults]

section:

forwardable This relationship speciﬁes if an user can obtain a forwardable ticket. Valid

values with which it can be set are:

true, false, yes, y, no, n, on, off.

proxiable This relationship speciﬁes if an user can obtain a proxiable ticket. Valid values

to which it can be set are:

true

, false, yes, y, no, n, on, off.

tkt_lifetime This relationship speciﬁes the lifetime of the ticket to be obtained. The unit of

lifetime is either seconds, minutes, hours or days.

renew_lifetime

This relationship speciﬁes the renewable life of the ticket to be obtained. The

unit of lifetime is either seconds, minutes, hours or days.

Note

For DCE operations use

/opt/dce/bin/kinit

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

kinit uses the following environment variable:

KRB5CCNAME Location of the credentials ticket cache.

FILES

/tmp/krb5cc_{uid} Default credentials cache. {uid} is the decimal UID of the user.

/etc/krb5.keytab Default location for the local host’s keytab ﬁle.

AUTHOR

kinit was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.