How to Destroy a Kerberos Ticket

Enter kdestroy.

Destroy Kerberos tickets when the session is over, so that an unauthorized user cannot to gain access to it. If you want to reinitiate Kerberos authentication, use the kinit command.

Example of Destroying a Kerberos Ticket

The following example shows how to destroy the Kerberos ticket. If the user then tries to change to or list a Kerberos-protected directory, the ticket server denies access.

earth% kdestroy
Tickets destroyed
earth% ls /mntkrb
Can't get Kerberos key: No ticket file (tf_util)
NFS getattr failed for server pluto: RPC: Authentication error
can not access directory /mntkrb.