[OpenAFS] keepafstoken

[Russ Allbery]

Simeon Miteff <simeon@up.ac.za> writes:

> I've written a little C program that performs the same function as
> reauth or keeptoken - it reads the users password and forks into the
> background where it wakes up at regular intervals to refresh the user's
> kerberos ticket and afs token.

> I could not get reauth to work with my mit-krb5+openafs setup. I based
> this little program on reauth.pl, it runs the kinit and aklog programs
> directly, and does not link krb or afs libs.

> I plan to use it at our site, and will write a little man page and maybe
> turn it into a debian package too.

> If you're interested, please take a look at it and give me feedback, if
> not, sorry for the attachment :-/

Oh, such things are always of interest!

I'm assuming that for your usage scenario, you didn't want to deal with
keytabs or srvtabs?  I ask just because otherwise you might be interested
in kstart:

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

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