About
kinit is an utility that permits to obtain and cache Kerberos ticket-granting tickets.
You can then verify that the Kerberos configuration is good and that the authentication is working.
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Getting Started
Own username
kinit assumes you want tickets for your own username in your default realm.
kinit
Password for [email protected]:
New ticket is stored in cache file C:\Users\gerard\krb5cc_gerard
Someone else
A friend David is visiting, and he wants to borrow a window to check his mail. David needs to get tickets for himself in his own realm.
kinit [email protected]
Password for [email protected]:
With a keytab file
kinit -V -k -t /path/To/keyTabFile principal
Authenticated to Kerberos v5
Operating System
Linux
/usr/kerberos/bin/kinit
Windows
>where kinit
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05\bin\kinit.exe
Usage:
>kinit -help
Usage: kinit [-A] [-f] [-p] [-c cachename] [[-k [-t keytab_file_name]] [principal] [password]
available options to Kerberos 5 ticket request:
-A do not include addresses
-f forwardable
-p proxiable
-c cache name (i.e., FILE:\d:\myProfiles\mykrb5cache)
-k use keytab
-t keytab file name
principal the principal name (i.e., [email protected] qweadf)
password the principal's Kerberos password
where:
- principal is a principal
Support
KDC has no support for encryption type
Generally the error “KDC has no support for encryption type” has nothing to do with the encryption type itself but with access to the credentials (ie bad domain controller host, …). It's a very misleading error message.
Key table entry not found
“Key table entry not found” means that the client presented a service ticket whose contents don't match anything in the server's keytab file.
In this scenario the most likely reason is that:
- you didn't regenerate the keytab file after enabling an enctypes.
- the entry is not in the keytab file