[OpenAFS] Cron jobs with access to AFS

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:47:00 -0800


Lukas Kubin <kubin@opf.slu.cz> writes:

> About two weeks ago I asked here for help with enabling long-running
> processes (web servers) with access to AFS space. Thanks to a great help
> of especially Russ Allbery we are now using Stanford's "k5start" utility
> to keep K5 tickets and AFS tokens.

> Now I can't succeed doing the same with cron jobs.

You may find:

    <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/runauth/>

useful.  Note that right now, it only speaks K4 (and uses either ksrvtgt
or kstart) since we're still using K4 for AFS access, but it should be
fairly trivial to modify it to use k5start instead.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>