kswitch — MIT Kerberos Documentation

# MIT Kerberos Documentation

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# kswitch

## SYNOPSIS

kswitch {-c cachename|-p principal}

## DESCRIPTION

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

DEFCCNAME

  Default location of Kerberos 5 credentials cache

## SEE ALSO

kinit, kdestroy, klist, kerberos