Man page description of kinit -R

[Kevin Coffman]

Hi Brett,
Just a thought.  Is the ticket perhaps expired but still within the clock
skew window?

K.C.


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Brett Randall <javabrett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> krb5-1.10.1 here.
>
> My local man page for kinit (as well as
> http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.12/doc/user/user_commands/kinit.html
> ) has the following description of the kinit -R option:
>
> -R: requests renewal of the ticket-granting ticket. Note that an
> expired ticket cannot be renewed, even if the ticket is still within
> its renewable life.
>
> Does the comment "an expired ticket cannot be renewed" remain true,
> and if so, can someone help me understand "expired" in this context?
> If I have a ticket which has an "Expires" date-time (as reported by
> klist) which is in the past, but a "renew until" date which is in the
> future, I can successfully renew the ticket using kinit -R.  I see
> this as renewal of an expired, but renewable and
> within-renewable-period ticket.
>
> Is that expected, and is the above comment now a doc-bug?
>
> Thanks
> Brett
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