[OpenAFS] Automatic token renewal

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:12:28 -0700


Robbert Eggermont <R.Eggermont@tudelft.nl> writes:

> When using krenew, I keep hitting the problem where my Kerberos TGT is
> updated by other processes (in other PAGs; ssh logins for one) and
> krenew won't renew my AFS token in time.
>
> How does everybody else deal with this? Any tips/best practices?

I'm hoping to fix this in a future version of krenew by teaching it how
to retrieve the AFS token expiration time, although because I don't want
to link with AFS libraries, that requires additional work on my AFS
portability layer to add the additional system calls.

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