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                      9: .TH KDESTROY 1 "Kerberos Version 4.0" "MIT Project Athena"
                     10: .SH NAME
                     11: kdestroy \- destroy Kerberos tickets
                     12: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     13: .B kdestroy
                     14: [
                     15: .B \-f
                     16: ]
                     17: [
                     18: .B \-q
                     19: ]
                     20: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     21: The
                     22: .I kdestroy
                     23: utility destroys the user's active
                     24: Kerberos
                     25: authorization tickets by writing zeros to the file that contains them.
                     26: If the ticket file does not exist,
                     27: .I kdestroy
                     28: displays a message to that effect.
                     29: .PP
                     30: After overwriting the file,
                     31: .I kdestroy
                     32: removes the file from the system.
                     33: The utility
                     34: displays a message indicating the success or failure of the
                     35: operation.
                     36: If
                     37: .I kdestroy
                     38: is unable to destroy the ticket file,
                     39: the utility will warn you by making your terminal beep.
                     40: .PP
                     41: In the Athena workstation environment,
                     42: the
                     43: .I toehold
                     44: service automatically destroys your tickets when you
                     45: end a workstation session.
                     46: If your site does not provide a similar ticket-destroying mechanism,
                     47: you can place the
                     48: .I kdestroy
                     49: command in your
                     50: .I .logout
                     51: file so that your tickets are destroyed automatically
                     52: when you logout.
                     53: .PP
                     54: The options to
                     55: .I kdestroy
                     56: are as follows:
                     57: .TP 7
                     58: .B \-f
                     59: .I kdestroy
                     60: runs without displaying the status message.
                     61: .TP
                     62: .B \-q
                     63: .I kdestroy
                     64: will not make your terminal beep if it fails to destroy the tickets.
                     65: .SH FILES
                     66: KRBTKFILE environment variable if set, otherwise
                     67: .br
                     68: /tmp/tkt[uid]
                     69: .SH SEE ALSO
                     70: kerberos(1), kinit(1), klist(1)
                     71: .SH BUGS
                     72: .PP
                     73: Only the tickets in the user's current ticket file are destroyed.
                     74: Separate ticket files are used to hold root instance and password
                     75: changing tickets.  These files should probably be destroyed too, or
                     76: all of a user's tickets kept in a single ticket file.
                     77: .SH AUTHORS
                     78: Steve Miller, MIT Project Athena/Digital Equipment Corporation
                     79: .br
                     80: Clifford Neuman, MIT Project Athena
                     81: .br
                     82: Bill Sommerfeld, MIT Project Athena

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