[OpenAFS] Services running in AFS space

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, JR Boyens wrote:

> I found something from UW-Madison (cs.wisc) about burtscript, stashticket, and
> runauth which seemed rather promising, but I was unable to find a suitable
> source for the...source. :)
> 
> I've thought about writing a little custom utility for myself that will just
> fork a process and get a kerb ticket of known length and an AFS token, then
> just wait until the ticket needs updating. I could probably do it in a cron job
> too.

i think cmu distributes reauth. there might even be a pointer on
freshmeat.

> My own university (Iowa State) skirts around the issue by not letting services
> run there in the first place. Except for the web servers who are rebooted every
> 30 days to get a new kerberos ticket.
> 
> So, to the point of my rant, is there an "official" (read: normal) way to do
> this?

official, no. normal, well, actually, no. there are about 30 variants on
ticket refreshers floating around.