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KINIT(1)                    General Commands Manual                   KINIT(1)

NAME
     kinit - acquire initial tickets

SYNOPSIS
     kinit [--afslog] [-c cachename | --cache=cachename] [-f | --forwardable]
           [-F | --no-forwardable] [-t keytabname | --keytab=keytabname]
           [-l time | --lifetime=time] [-p | --proxiable] [-R | --renew]
           [--renewable] [-r time | --renewable-life=time] [-S principal |
           --server=principal] [-s time | --start-time=time]
           [-k | --use-keytab] [-v | --validate] [-e enctypes |
           --enctypes=enctypes] [-a addresses | --extra-addresses=addresses]
           [--password-file=filename] [--fcache-version=version-number]
           [-A | --no-addresses] [-n | --anonymous] [--enterprise] [--version]
           [--help] [principal [command]]

DESCRIPTION
     kinit is used to authenticate to the Kerberos server as principal, or if
     none is given, a system generated default (typically your login name at
     the default realm), and acquire a ticket granting ticket that can later
     be used to obtain tickets for other services.

     Supported options:

     -c cachename --cache=cachename
             The credentials cache to put the acquired ticket in, if other
             than default.

     -f --forwardable
             Obtain a ticket than can be forwarded to another host.

     -F --no-forwardable
             Do not obtain a forwardable ticket.

     -t keytabname, --keytab=keytabname
             Don't ask for a password, but instead get the key from the
             specified keytab.

     -l time, --lifetime=time
             Specifies the lifetime of the ticket.  The argument can either be
             in seconds, or a more human readable string like `1h'.

     -p, --proxiable
             Request tickets with the proxiable flag set.

     -R, --renew
             Try to renew ticket.  The ticket must have the `renewable' flag
             set, and must not be expired.

     --renewable
             The same as --renewable-life, with an infinite time.

     -r time, --renewable-life=time
             The max renewable ticket life.

     -S principal, --server=principal
             Get a ticket for a service other than krbtgt/LOCAL.REALM.

     -s time, --start-time=time
             Obtain a ticket that starts to be valid time (which can really be
             a generic time specification, like `1h') seconds into the future.

     -k, --use-keytab
             The same as --keytab, but with the default keytab name (normally
             FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab).

     -v, --validate
             Try to validate an invalid ticket.

     -e, --enctypes=enctypes
             Request tickets with this particular enctype.

     --password-file=filename
             read the password from the first line of filename.  If the
             filename is STDIN, the password will be read from the standard
             input.

     --fcache-version=version-number
             Create a credentials cache of version version-number.

     -a, --extra-addresses=enctypes
             Adds a set of addresses that will, in addition to the systems
             local addresses, be put in the ticket.  This can be useful if all
             addresses a client can use can't be automatically figured out.
             One such example is if the client is behind a firewall.  Also
             settable via libdefaults/extra_addresses in krb5.conf(5).

     -A, --no-addresses
             Request a ticket with no addresses.

     -n, --anonymous
             Request an anonymous ticket.  With the default (false) setting of
             the historical_anon_pkinit configuration parameter, if the
             principal is specified as @REALM, then anonymous PKINIT will be
             used to acquire an unauthenticated anonymous ticket and both the
             client name and (with fully RFC-comformant KDCs) realm in the
             returned ticket will be anonymized.  Otherwise, authentication
             proceeds as normal and the anonymous ticket will have only the
             client name anonymized.  With historical_anon_pkinit set to true,
             the principal is interpreted as a realm even without an at-sign
             prefix, and it is not possible to obtain authenticated anonymized
             tickets.

     --enterprise
             Parse principal as a enterprise (KRB5-NT-ENTERPRISE) name.
             Enterprise names are email like principals that are stored in the
             name part of the principal, and since there are two @ characters
             the parser needs to know that the first is not a realm.  An
             example of an enterprise name is "lha@e.kth.se@KTH.SE", and this
             option is usually used with canonicalize so that the principal
             returned from the KDC will typically be the real principal name.

     --afslog
             Gets AFS tickets, converts them to version 4 format, and stores
             them in the kernel.  Only useful if you have AFS.

     The forwardable, proxiable, ticket_life, and renewable_life options can
     be set to a default value from the appdefaults section in krb5.conf, see
     krb5_appdefault(3).

     If  a command is given, kinit will set up new credentials caches, and AFS
     PAG, and then run the given command.  When it finishes the credentials
     will be removed.

ENVIRONMENT
     KRB5CCNAME
             Specifies the default credentials cache.

     KRB5_CONFIG
             The file name of krb5.conf, the default being /etc/krb5.conf.

SEE ALSO
     kdestroy(1), klist(1), krb5_appdefault(3), krb5.conf(5)

NetBSD 10.99                    April 25, 2006                    NetBSD 10.99