[OpenAFS] GUI Tools

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Thu, 20 May 2004 20:35:42 +0200


On Thursday, May 20, 2004, at 07:49  PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Horst Birthelmer wrote:
>
>> Maybe that'll solve a few problems with the Java API :-)
>> It uses some userspace "client" functionality.
>>
>> I never had the time to really look deep into it so I always 
>> recommended people not to  use the authentication stuff.
>> The only thing I know is that you'll not able to get a token with 
>> that library. On some functionality it's a little inconsistent in 
>> design.
>> If somone's interested in future discussion about this just mail me 
>> ;-)
>>
>> Horst
>
> The Java API can certainly be updated to include native methods to 
> allow tokens to be set from Java using the
> C ktc_SetToken call.
>
The Problem is just the opposite.
You need a token for many operations and that's the part which is 
broken right now.

Horst