kswitch(1)

kswitch1

Switch primary ticket cache

Usage

kswitch {-c cachename | -p principal}

Overview

kswitch makes the specified credential cache the primary cache for the collection, if a cache collection is available.

Options

-c cachename

Directly specifies the credential cache to be made primary.

-p principal

Causes the cache collection to be searched for a cache containing credentials for principal. If one is found, that collection is made primary.

Environment

See kerberos for a description of Kerberos environment variables.

Files

FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_%{uid}

Default location of Kerberos 5 credentials cache

Releases

7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11
  6. 12
  7. Arch

-c since Debian 8 (Jessie); -p since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Author

MIT

From krb5 1.22.2-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.