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NAME
kdestroy - destroy Kerberos tickets
SYNOPSIS
kdestroy [ -f ] [ -q ] [ -t ]
DESCRIPTION
The kdestroy utility destroys the user's active Kerberos
authorization tickets by writing zeros to the file that
contains them. If the ticket file does not exist, kde-
stroy displays a message to that effect.
After overwriting the file, kdestroy removes the file from
the system. The utility displays a message indicating the
success or failure of the operation. If kdestroy is
unable to destroy the ticket file, the utility will warn
you by making your terminal beep.
In the Athena workstation environment, the toehold service
automatically destroys your tickets when you end a work-
station session. If your site does not provide a similar
ticket-destroying mechanism, you can place the kdestroy
command in your .logout file so that your tickets are
destroyed automatically when you logout.
The options to kdestroy are as follows:
-f kdestroy runs without displaying the status mes-
sage.
-q kdestroy will not make your terminal beep if it
fails to destroy the tickets.
-t kdestroy will remove any afs-tokens. Without this
flag none of the tokens associated with the current
PAG is destroyed.
FILES
KRBTKFILE environment variable if set, otherwise
/tmp/tkt[uid]
SEE ALSO
kerberos(1), kinit(1), klist(1)
BUGS
Only the tickets in the user's current ticket file are
destroyed. Separate ticket files are used to hold root
instance and password changing tickets. These files
should probably be destroyed too, or all of a user's tick-
ets kept in a single ticket file.
AUTHORS
Steve Miller, MIT Project Athena/Digital Equipment Corpo-
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Clifford Neuman, MIT Project Athena
Bill Sommerfeld, MIT Project Athena
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