[109] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: authenticated cron jobs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig_Everhart@transarc.com)
Wed May 1 17:25:31 1991
Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 16:47:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Craig_Everhart@transarc.com
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com, paw@rigel.dartmouth.edu
In-Reply-To: <9105011914.AA17933@rigel.dartmouth.edu>
AMDS does this for some daemon jobs by running on protected machines and
leaving its password around on the local disk. That's also how it knows
how to start authenticated daemons after it reboots.
The only other solutions would involve (to my mind) magic tricks with
the lifetimes of tickets, but I know of no mechanism for the cron job to
connect up with a ticket that you put on the local disk somewhere.
It's generally a hard problem.
Craig
