krb5-auth-dialog(1)

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version 44.0.alpha1 · 3 versions
, in fedora 43, opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 krb5-auth-dialog — the "is your Kerberos still valid bestie??" check 💖

okay so this is a page from the System Administrator's Manual, and the whole entire point of krb5-auth-dialog is Kerberos 5 credential checking. that's it. that's the vibe. let's go 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

krb5-auth-dialog — Kerberos 5 credential checking 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

krb5-auth-dialog [--auto]

like. that's the whole thing. one optional flag. we love a minimal queen 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the deal bestie. krb5-auth-dialog is out here doing periodic vibe checks on your Kerberos credentials. every 30 seconds, no cap. it peeks in and asks:

  1. does the user even have Kerberos credentials rn? 🫶
  2. if yes — are they about to expire?? like, in less than 30 minutes???

and if it turns out that yeah, they're expiring soon, krb5-auth-dialog is gonna try to obtain fresh credentials for you. and because it's polite (iconic behavior honestly), it'll prompt the user for whatever information is necessary to pull that off. 💖

it's giving "your mom texting you to renew your passport before it expires." but for Kerberos. and every 30 seconds. 😭

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • --auto — okay so if you pass this, krb5-auth-dialog will only start up if it finds that the user actually has Kerberos credentials. which is lowkey genius because it means only the users who genuinely use Kerberos ever see the program at all. no randos getting jumpscared by a credential dialog 🙈
heads up tho: in some settings, users may authenticate to Kerberos at a later time, even if they do not have Kerberos credentials initially. so --auto isn't a forever-guarantee, it's just a "at launch, do you have creds or not" kinda situation. iykyk ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • krb5.conf(5) — go read that one too, it's the whole config situation, slay 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

probably!! but let's hope not bestie 😭🙏

if you do find any, please please please file them in the bug database at:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/krb5-auth-dialog/-/issues

do it for me. do it for the culture. 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

these absolute legends made this happen:

  • Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com>
  • Jonathan Blandford <jrb@redhat.com>
  • Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

main character energy, all three of them. periodt. 💜

and that's the whole page!! brought to you by GNOME, dated 2005/11/02 — yeah she's been around a minute and she's still serving ✨ stay hydrated, renew your creds, and don't let them expire on you 💅🍓

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