Example--Creating a Ticket

This example shows a user, jennifer, creating a ticket on her own system.

% kinit
Password for jennifer@ENG.ACME.COM:  <enter password>

Here the user david creates a ticket good for three hours with the -l option.

% kinit -l 3h david@ACME.ORG
Password for david@ACME.ORG:  <enter password>

This example shows david creating a forwardable ticket (with -f) for himself. With this forwardable ticket, he can (for example) log in to a second system, and then telnet to a third system.

% kinit -f david@ACME.ORG
Password for david@ACME.ORG:     <enter password>

For more on how forwarding tickets works, see "Types of Tickets".