[OpenAFS] ticket expireation question

Chris Crowther chris@jm-crowther.co.uk
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:42:42 +0100


Jiann-Ming Su wrote:

> loose on a AFS volume.  What happens if the kerberos ticket expires
> before the job is done running?  Additionally, how well would OpenAFS

	Simply, it would lose its credentials; it would have whatever access
the ACLs allow for an unauthenticated client.

	If the code for the simulation is something you control, you could in
theory modify it to use a Kerberos keytab to do its own authentication;
that's a security tradeoff though (and not something I know a great deal
about, so I could be wide of the mark).  The same thing would probably
apply to processes running in a distributed enviroment.

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Chris Crowther