KSWITCH(1)

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💅 KSWITCH — the "make THIS ticket cache the main character" page

okay bestie, welcome to kswitch(1) from the MIT Kerberos manual set ✨ this little icon does exactly one thing and it does it flawlessly, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

kswitch — switch primary ticket cache 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

kswitch {-c cachename|-p principal}

like, you HAVE to give it one of those two. it's giving "pick a lane, babe". 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: kswitch makes the credential cache you point at the primary cache for the collection — but only if a cache collection is available. no collection? then there's nothing to switch, bestie, the whole point is moot. 😭

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -c cachename — tells it straight up which credential cache should be made primary. no searching, no guessing, you just say the name and it's done. 🫶
  • -p principal — this one's the detective route 🔍: it goes searching through the cache collection for a cache that has credentials for principal. if it finds one, that collection gets made primary. if it doesn't... well. 🙈

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

head over to the kerberos page for the whole rundown on Kerberos environment variables — that's where all of that lives. 💜

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_%{uid} — the default location of the Kerberos 5 credentials cache. that's your home base, bestie 🏠

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

kinit, kdestroy, klist, kerberos

the whole squad fr fr 🧚

💀 AUTHOR 💀

MIT

1985-2026, MIT

okay that's the entire page, no notes. go forth and make the right cache the main character. 🔥

this has been KSWITCH(1) from MIT Kerberos, version 1.22.2 — slay, stay cached, and may your primary cache always be the one you actually wanted 💖✨

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