kdestroy(1)

kdestroy1

Destroy kerberos tickets

Usage

kdestroy [-A] [-q] [-c cache_name] [-p princ_name]

Overview

The kdestroy utility destroys the user's active Kerberos authorization tickets by overwriting and deleting the credentials cache that contains them. If the credentials cache is not specified, the default credentials cache is destroyed.

Options

-A

Destroys all caches in the collection, if a cache collection is available. May be used with the -c option to specify the collection to be destroyed.

-q

Run quietly. Normally kdestroy beeps if it fails to destroy the user's tickets. The -q flag suppresses this behavior.

-c cache_name

Use cache_name as the credentials (ticket) cache name and location; if this option is not used, the default cache name and location are used.

The default credentials cache may vary between systems. If the KRB5CCNAME environment variable is set, its value is used to name the default ticket cache.

-p princ_name

If a cache collection is available, destroy the cache for princ_name instead of the primary cache. May be used with the -c option to specify the collection to be searched.

Note

Most installations recommend that you place the kdestroy command in your .logout file, so that your tickets are destroyed automatically when you log out.

Environment

See kerberos for a description of Kerberos environment variables.

Files

@CCNAME@

Default location of Kerberos 5 credentials cache

Releases

52 releases since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 5.3–7.4
  2. 8.0–9.3
  3. 10.0–14.5
  4. 15.0
  5. 15.1–16.0

-A since FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE; -p since FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE; -q since FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE.

--all until FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE; --no-delete-v4 until FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE; --no-unlog until FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE; -cache until FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE; -credential until FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE.

Author

MIT

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.