pkinit kinit/krb5.conf naming inconsistencies

[Henry B. Hotz]

On Sep 16, 2008, at 9:12 AM, krbdev-request at mit.edu wrote:

> I'm assuming that Heimdal's kinit doesn't have this -x thing, that in
> Heimdal if you want to override the system's krb5.conf you should use
> the KRB5_CONFIG environment variable.


I care a lot more about rationalizing the krb5.conf file than the  
command line options.  For reference:

kinit --pk-user=<x509 identity> --x509-anchors=<directory> --pk-use- 
enckey ...

Option aliases are -C and -D respectively.  <x509 identity> is usually  
a FILE:... or PKCS11:... value.  I've never actually used the other two.

There's no generic "override a config file option" option, just a few  
environment variables like KRB5_CONFIG.

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