.k5login - Kerberos V5 acl file for host access
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DESCRIPTION
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The *.k5login* file, which resides in a user's home directory, contains a list of the Kerberos principals.
Anyone with valid tickets for a principal in the file is allowed host access with the UID of the user in whose home directory the file resides.  
One common use is to place a *.k5login* file in root's home directory, thereby granting system administrators remote root access to the host via Kerberos.

EXAMPLES
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Suppose the user "alice" had a *.k5login* file in her home directory containing the following line:

                 bob\@FUBAR.ORG

This  would  allow  "bob"  to use any of the Kerberos network applications, such as telnet(1), rlogin(1), rsh(1), and rcp(1), 
to access alice's account, using bob's Kerberos tickets.

Let us further suppose that "alice" is a system administrator.  
Alice and the other system administrators would have  their  principals in root's *.k5login* file on each host:

                 alice\@BLEEP.COM

                 joeadmin/root\@BLEEP.COM

This  would  allow either system administrator to log in to these hosts using their Kerberos tickets instead of having to type the root password.  
Note that because "bob" retains the Kerberos tickets for his own principal, "bob\@FUBAR.ORG", 
he would not have  any  of  the privileges that require alice's tickets, such as root access to any of the site's hosts, 
or the ability to change alice's password.

SEE ALSO
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telnet(1), rlogin(1), rsh(1), rcp(1), ksu(1), telnetd(8), klogind(8)

