Renewable ticket ?

[Marc]

Nicolas Williams wrote:

> I have added an option, -E, to klist here which causes klist to print
> the number of seconds left to TGT expiry and the number of seconds left
> to TGT renewal limit - as with -s, exit status is set to 0 if there's a
> valid TGT for the given ccache's default principal, 1 otherwise.
> 
> With this one can write a script to check all ccaches, renew the
> renewable ones which would expire soon, warn users about ccaches that
> can't be renewed and then wait a reasonable amount of time before
> starting again. And if a ccache's user is no longer logged in then you
> can even let the tickets therein lapse.
> 
> I can post the klist diff if you wish. The rest is upto you.
> 
> Nico
> 
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:35:54PM +0200, Marc wrote:
> 
>>Nils Olav Selåsdal wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: kerberos-admin at mit.edu [mailto:kerberos-admin at mit.edu] 
>>>>On Behalf Of Marc
>>>>Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 10:03 AM
>>>>To: kerberos at mit.edu
>>>>Subject: Renewable ticket ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>Is it somehow possible to make a ticket auto renewable ? What 
>>>>I mean is 
>>>>when I log in I get my ticket and then when the ticket 
>>>>expires I don't 
>>>>need to manually do a kinit to get a new ticket.
>>>>
>>>>I had a look in Kerberos V5 System administrator's guide but found 
>>>>nothing, no renewable option or something like that which I 
>>>>could use in 
>>>>krb5.conf.
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Make a cron or at job that does it for you.
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>>Well that is fine in a single user workstation case but how do you cope 
>>with a multi-user system ??
>>
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Isn't there in kinit an option which makes a ticket "auto-renewable" or 
does something like that doesn't exist ?

Regards