Wednesday, 14 August 2013

tmp/krb5cc_[uid] is not getting purged regularly (kerberos credentials cache)

tmp/krb5cc_[uid] is not getting purged regularly (kerberos credentials cache)

An ftp id wasn't able to authenticate itself using kerberos because it
wasn't able to create /tmp/krb5cc_[uid]. This was caused because /tmp ran
out of inode space, as there were innumerbale (don't know the exact number
as ls -l|wc -l fails as there are too many arguments) kerberos credential
cache files. Some were older than 2 years. Why is that the credential
cache is not getting deleted after use? Is this a problem with the user
profile?
Thanks, Pratheeksha

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