[OpenAFS-devel] aklog on MacOS X was Re: Service Ticket Questions

[David Botsch]

I've seen the opposite here... users much prefer a gui to having to do things
in a commandline interface. As soon as you tell a user to go to the terminal or
start up X11, the user's face blanks over.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:12:39AM -0800, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi lxs,
> 
> On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:01 AM, Alexandra Ellwood wrote:
> >Apple has such a tool.  It's called Keychain Access.  It stores  
> >certs, passwords, identity preferences... basically anything living  
> >in your keychain.  I can't speak for Apple (I'm not even an Apple  
> >employee) but I'd place good money on this being where Apple would  
> >display Kerberos and AFS credentials if they were doing the support  
> >themselves.
> >
> >That being said I've never placed high priority on Kerberos support  
> >in Keychain Access because Mac users don't seem to want it.  Mac  
> >users want Kerberos to work without any interaction with any  
> >tools.  They want to be prompted for tickets when they need new  
> >ones (or have them automatically acquired in the pkinit case).
> 
> Um, I'm having trouble following this argument, but I want to make  
> sure I understand your issue. I completely understand that AFS users  
> don't want to run a GUI application.  But, I'm confused with how that  
> impacts the issue of using "Keychain Services" as the underlying API  
> and storage mechanism for managing AFS tickets:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/ 
> Security_Overview/Security_Services/chapter_4_section_6.html
> 
> Presumably, it would be straightforward for AFS and Kerberos to use  
> Keychain Services and provide their own CLI interface, no?  Or are  
> you concerned about something completely different?
> 
> -- Ernie P.
> 
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