1 kas noauthentication AFS Commands kas noauthentication
6 kas noauthentication -- discard authenticated identity in
11 (kas) noauthentication [-help]
13 ACCEPTABLE ABBREVIATIONS/ALIASES
19 Instructs the Authentication Server to close the (presumably
20 authenticated) connection established when the issuer
21 entered interactive mode. It opens a new unauthenticated
22 connection, assigning the issuer the unprivileged identity
23 anonymous. It does not actually flush the user's tokens
24 from the Cache Manager's memory (as unlog or
27 This command is useful only in interactive mode, in which
28 case the issuer should omit the kas command suite name. If
29 issued in non-interactive mode, it has no effect.
31 Like the -noauth flag available on a few kas commands (e.g.,
32 kas interactive) this command is only useful in unusual
33 circumstances. During normal operation, there is no point
34 to throwing away an authenticated identity (becoming
35 anonymous). The Authentication Server still does
36 authorization checking and will not allow anonymous, who is
37 unprivileged by definition, to perform privileged commands.
41 -help prints the online help for this command. Do
42 not provide any other arguments or flags
43 with this one. See section 4.3 in the
44 Reference Manual for more details.
48 The following discards the authentication information with
49 which the user entered interactive mode.
57 None. Because this command may be issued only while in
58 interactive mode, no password is prompted for.