Several years ago, we at Cornell started to look into the use of token refresh.
Most of our work was based on code written at CERN back in 1995 or earlier.
The person who wrote that code is no longer at CERN. To add to that, the
person who did all of the porting here at the Cornell Theory Center is no
longer working here either. I do know that IBM expressed interest in getting
our token refresh code so that they would have something they could give to
customers. My own advice would be to let the LoadLeveler folks know that it
would be quite nice to distribute some sample token refresh code so that every
site doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. I do know that what we use depends
on sysctl, another piece of software that has no support since the folks who
wrote it no longer work at IBM.
Paul Viscuso
Cornell Information Technologies/Cornell Theory Center
Systems Analyst/Specialist
> 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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> > Todd Rannow Systems Software email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Network Computing Services, Inc. phone: (612) 337-3529
>
>
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> University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
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