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`] [`-``-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.
`-``-anonymous`
  Request an anonymous ticket (which means that the ticket will be issued to an anonymous principal, typically “anonymous@REALM”).
`-``-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)

April 25, 2006 | NetBSD 9.5