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

[David Botsch]

Ouch!! Did not know this. I think I'm gonna' report that as a bug as 
that is quite broken...

I'll have to advise our users as well to make sure they don't lock 
their screensavers as they won't be able to unlock it!

On 2003.07.09 12:57 Alexei Kosut wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 9:49 AM, David Botsch wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> If Kerberos tickets are renewed, the plugin will refresh the AFS 
> tokens.  However, the screensaver doesn't do this, and I don't know 
> of any way to make it do that.  The screensaver lock doesn't support 
> Kerberos passwords generally, or anything other than local 
> passwords.  My guess would be that if Apple added support for 
> Kerberos passwords to the screensaver, ticket/token renewal would 
> come for free.
> 
> 
>-- 
> Alexei Kosut <akosut@cs.stanford.edu> 
> <http://cs.stanford.edu/~akosut/>

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