[OpenAFS-devel] AFS ticket logging and Windows clients

[Kevin Coffman]

> 
> Dear sirs,
> 
> I am trying to log ticket aquisition events on the kaserver. I modified
> the kaserver RPC functions in kauth/kaprocs.c to log every call of
> Authenticate() and GetTicket(). Ticket acquisition from a client is logged
> normally, as long as the client is a UNIX machine :-). It seems that the
> Windows NT AFS Client uses a different mechanism to acquire tokens than
> the UNIX AFS client. We use Transarc Windows NT AFS Client versions
> 3.5 - 3.6.
> 
> Can somebody elaborate on the mechanism that the Windows clients use to
> obtain tickets from the kaserver?
> 
> Thank you very much


The Windows client uses "normal" UDP rather than rx for authentication. 
 See UDP_GetTicket() and UDP_Authenticate().