[OpenAFS-port-darwin] OpenAFS 1.4.12; credential renewal in AFSBackgrounder?

[Jason Edgecombe]

Arthur Prokosch wrote:
> First, I want to congratulate everyone who worked on the 1.4.12
> release -- default incorporation of the AFSBackgrounder, as well as
> installer improvements, are invaluable for pain-free deployment of
> AFS at our site (cell=csail.mit.edu).
>
> I was wondering if a feature request has been submitted yet for
> auto-renewing Kerberos credentials.  At our site, Kerberos tickets
> each last 10h, but are renewable up to 7d.  The feature to
> automatically renew the tickets while they were renewable was present
> in 10.5's Kerberos.app, but is absent from 10.6's Ticket Viewer.app
> (and I've found no good replacement).  With 1.4.12's AFSBackgrounder,
> our users get kerberos+afs credentials at login, but lose them when
> they leave machines on overnight (a common practice).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> For comparison: a basic KDE app that exists only to handle renewals of
> kerberos+afs is Kredentials, http://packages.debian.org/lenny/kredentials .  
>   
Doesn't Russ' krenew do that?
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/krenew.html

Jason