Are you using straight AFS or AFS w/ KRB5? If you're using straight AFS,
as far as I know, you can only renew a token/ticket with the cleartext
password. If you're using KRB5, you can just requests a renewable ticket,
and periodically renew the ticket.
-- Nathan
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 03:41:18PM -0500, Todd A. Rannow wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience using LoadLeveler in an AFS environment?
> If so, have you found a secure way to refresh tickets for jobs that
> have been in the job queue for an unknown amount of time?
>
> We run jobs that may sit in the LoadLeveler queue for (much) longer
> than the life time of a ticket while waiting for resources, and some
> jobs that may need to run for longer than the life time of a ticket.
>
> LoadLeveler seems to provide support for ticket renewal -- according
> to the manual -- but we have been unable to figure out how it is
> supposed to work. We have also been unable to find anyone at IBM who
> knows how it is supposed to work.
>
> (Although Transarc is an IBM company, IBM seems to care very little
> about AFS....)
>
> If any of you have any experience with LL and AFS, I'd love to hear
> from you.
>
> Thanks,
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