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

[Joseph Jackson]

For our student computing labs, we've actually removed the UI elements 
that allow users to enable password checking in the screensaver panel 
of System Preferences. (We opened up the .nib file in Interface 
Builder, selected the checkbox and password field and pressed delete.) 
It's crude, but effective.

At WWDC, Apple promised that Kerberos support in the screensaver would 
be taken care of in the Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) timeframe. It's not 
there in the seeds that have been distributed thus far.

Joe Jackson,
Carnegie Mellon University.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 1:11PM, David Botsch wrote:

> 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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