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.TH RKINITD 8 "November 12, 1989"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
rkinitd \- server for 
.I rkinit,
a remote kerberos ticket establishment utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B rkinitd
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I rkinitd
is the server for 
.I rkinit. 
See 
.IR rkinit (1)
for information about
.I rkinit.
.I rkinitd
is started from inetd and must be run as root or be installed
setuid(root) as it needs to be able to read /etc/kerberosIV/srvtab and
change its uid to create tickets.

.I rkinitd
times out in 60 seconds if the transaction is not completed.

.I rkinitd 
must be running on a machine that is registered for rlogin
service; that is, the host must have a srvtab containing an rcmd.<host>
key where <host> is the value returned by the 
.IR krb_get_phost (3)
kerberos library call.

.SH SEE ALSO
rkinit(1), inetd(8), kerberos(1), kerberos(3)

.SH AUTHOR
Emanuel Jay Berkenbilt (MIT-Project Athena)