Well, you should be able to get tickets/tokens through ssh, either via kerberos ticket passing or typing in a password. In those cases your users can still run re-auth.
However for batch processes, well, there's just not much you can do. -derek Brady Catherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the quick reply! =) > > These users are coming in through SSh and often launching jobs that > run in the background. there really isn't room for running reauth and > such =/ > > Plus the hope is to put this on the cluster where jobs sit queued for > ages before running. The user would have no ability to authenticate > later. > > Hope this clarifies things a bit. > > > On May 25, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Have your users run reauth? That will automatically get them new >> tickets and tokens.. Or tie into the screensaver! >> >> -derek >> >> Quoting Brady Catherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> I am currently considering moving our environment to OpenAFS but >>> before I can switch I need to make sure a few things are going to >>> keep working.. >>> >>> We have users that use or systems for months on end without >>> logging off and I am concerned that the kerberos ticket they are >>> being issued will expire. Having them log back into kerberos/ >>> openafs isn't really a good option for us (I am having a hard >>> enough time selling even the basic conversion, let alone anything >>> that requires user action!) >>> >>> Is there an easy way around this with OpenAFS? I have tried >>> setting the length of our kerberos tickets higher but the most it >>> will give me is 7 days. Is there another way to do this? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenAFS-info mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory >> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) >> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenAFS-info mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
