[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: port-darwin digest, Vol 1 #81 - 1 msg

[David Botsch]

Maybe a better question would be, is it possible to get the screen 
saver to renew kerberos tickets? And if kerberos tickets are renewed, 
does this trigger Alexei's plugin to refresh tokens?

On 2003.07.08 15:21 bil wrote:
> 
> We're using Alexei's plugin and David's binary (thanks guys), and are 
> now trying to refine a general installation. One aspect we're looking 
> into whether it's possible to renew an afs token when someone enters 
> their password into the screen saver. Is it possible to prod aklog 
> from the screen saver? Or does anyone else have any ideas on this 
> issue?
> 
> tia,
> bil
> 
> 
> --On Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:01 PM -0500 porN2uJ!nnz
> t-darwin-request@openafs.org wrote:
> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:17:47 -0800
>> To: Alexei Kosut <akosut@stanford.edu>
>> From: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
>> Cc: Alan B Stepakoff <Alan.B.Stepakoff-100271@jpl.nasa.gov>,
>> 	port-darwin@openafs.org
>> Subject: [OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: port-darwin digest, Vol 1 #81 - 1 
>> msg
>> 
>> Way cool!!!
>> 
>> Just out of curiosity, do you have anything better than the kerberos
>> plugin for authentication?  What's needed IMHO is an Open Directory
>> plugin instead.  That would hopefully support renewing tokens from
>> the screen saver (like something Ragnar's got) as well as doing the
>> right thing from an SSH login.  I assume the reason Apple hasn't
>> provided a kerberos pam (even though some non-working ones exist in
>> Darwin) is that they intend to push people in this direction.  I
>> don't like the idea of installing three fixes when one should do.
> 
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