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lfs-flushctx(1)

lfs-flushctx - flush security context of current user.

LFS-FLUSHCTX(1) Lustre User Utilities LFS-FLUSHCTX(1)

lfs-flushctx - flush security context of current user.

lfs flushctx [--help|-h] [-k] [-r] [rootpath]

Flush security context of current user, for Lustre file system as specified by rootpath, or for all mounted Lustre file systems.

If -k is specified, proceed to Kerberos credentials cache destroy as well, by calling kdestroy.

If -r is specified, reap revoked keys from the session keyring.

Destroy the Kerberos credentials cache.
Remove revoked keys from the session keyring.
Print usage message.

Flush security context of current user for Lustre file system mounted under /mnt/lustre, as well as destroys its Kerberos credentials cache and reaps revoked keys from its session keyring. This is the recommended way of using the command:

# lfs flushctx -k -r /mnt/lustre

This simply flushes security context of current user for all mounted Lustre file systems:

# lfs flushctx

lfs flushctx is part of the lustre(7) filesystem package since release 2.0.0

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