kinit

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Authenticate a principal with a Kerberos server to gain and cache a ticket. Note: A Kerberos principal can be either a user, service, or application.

Examples (6)

Authenticate a user and obtain a ticket-granting ticket

kinit username

Renew a ticket-granting ticket

kinit -R

Specify a lifetime for the ticket

kinit -l 5h

Specify a total renewable lifetime for the ticket

kinit -r 1w

Specify a different principal name to authenticate as

kinit -p principal@REALM

Specify a different keytab file to authenticate with

kinit -t path/to/keytab