kinit Command-line Tool

A JDBC client participating in Kerberos authentication requires a valid Kerberos ticket to be present on the JDBC client's operating system.

Here are some points to remember about this Kerberos ticket:

• It has to be requested manually;
• It has to be requested before the Java JDBC client tool is started;
• This request is done using the Java command-line tool kinit(.exe):
  • kinit is part of JRE and JDK, so the JDBC client's own Java can be used as follows:
    

    • Tableau Desktop: "C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau <version>\bin\jre\bin\kinit.exe"

    • DBeaver: "path\to\dbeaver\jre\bin\kinit.exe"
    • CData Virtuality Studio: "path\to\CData Virtuality Studio\CData Virtuality Studio\jre\bin\kinit.exe"
  • To request a Kerberos ticket, just run kinit without any parameters and provide your password when asked for it;
  • The default lifetime of the Kerberos ticket is 24 hours. It may be different if configured and requested accordingly.