[OpenAFS] Services running in AFS space

JR Boyens JR Boyens <jboyens@iastate.edu>
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:42:22 -0600


I posted this to Larry, but lo and behold, I forgot to reply to the list. :)

I've heard alot about Heimdal. How does it compare with MIT Kerb (what I
have now)? Is it documented well? Is it interchangable with minimal
effort (read: patching)? Why should I use it instead of MIT?

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:28:16PM -0500 or thereabouts, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
>    From: JR Boyens <jboyens@iastate.edu>
>    Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:48:36 -0600
> 
>    Well, if it helps I'm looking for one that can handle krb5/afs and
>    be able to run almost anything and make sure the tickets stay
>    updated.
> 
>    Something like:
> 	   foo -princ "someprogram/surly.fooninja.org" -exec
> 	   /usr/bin/exim
> 
>    etc.
> 
> I find that the Heimdal kauth program does pretty well like this. At
> one point it didn't automatically refresh tickets/tokens, but I made a
> patch a while ago so that if you ran
> 
> kauth --renewable <principal> <command>
> 
> it would continually refresh. I don't know if this patch was
> incorporated or not.
> 
> Larry
> 
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