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3.1 - kdcinit

SYNOPSIS

kdcinit [conf_dir] [keytab]

DESCRIPTION

kdcinit is used by admin to initialize and prepare all kinds of KDC side materials, like initializing concrete back end, setting necessary principals (tgs, kadmin) and etc.