kdestroy — Destroy Kerberos Tickets
Synopsis
/usr/bin/kdestroy [-fnq]
Description
Kerberos is an authentication system that uses Data Encryption Standard (DES) to authenticate a user logging in to the system. Authentication is based on the capability of the sending system to use a common key to encrypt a ticket containing the current time that the receiving system can decrypt and check against its current time.
You destroy Kerberos tickets by using the kdestroy command. You should destroy Kerberos tickets when the session is over so that an unauthorized user cannot gain access to them.
kdestroy destroys the user's active Kerberos authorization tickets by writing zeros to the file that contains them. If the ticket file does not exist, kdestroy ...
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