[OpenAFS-devel] [LKML] Re: In-kernel Authentication Tokens (PAGs)

[Derek Atkins]

Tomas Olsson <tol@stacken.kth.se> writes:

> I'd say that my id(s) for the distributed system(s) don't necessarily have
> anything to do with my local uid, so changing uid shouldn't affect my creds
> for the distributed system(s). Just like doing kinit shouldn't affect my
> local uid. I can say that being forced to reauthenticate (or similar) to be
> able to run my scripts in AFS every time I run sudo would be annoying.
>
> Comments? Better examples?

lpr, sendmail, or other apps that are setuid for local storage but
need access to your credentials to talk to a network server?

-derek
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