kstart 4.2 released

[Russ Allbery]

I'm pleased to announce release 4.2 of kstart.

k5start and krenew are modified versions of kinit which add support for
running as a daemon to maintain a ticket cache, running a command with
credentials from a keytab and maintaining a ticket cache until that
command completes, obtaining AFS tokens (via an external aklog) after
obtaining tickets, and creating an AFS PAG for a command.  They are
primarily useful in conjunction with long-running jobs; for moving ticket
handling code out of servers, cron jobs, or daemons; and to obtain tickets
and AFS tokens with a single command.

Changes from previous release:

    k5start, when run with the -K option to run as a daemon, no longer
    exits if the initial authentication fails (unless -x was given).
    Instead, it reports the error to standard error and then continues to
    run, attempting authentication every minute as if authentication had
    failed after it had started.  Patch from Rasmus Borup Hansen.

    For both k5start with a command or -K and no -x flag, and krenew with
    the -i flag, repeatedly retry the initial authentication.  The first
    retry will be immediate, and then the commands will keep trying with
    exponential backoff to one minute intervals, and then continuously at
    one minute intervals until the command is killed or authentication
    succeeds.  k5start and krenew will no longer start any other command
    until the initial authentication succeeds, fixing startup behavior
    when running a command that must have valid Kerberos tickets
    immediately on start.  Based on a patch by Lars Hanke.

    Clean up the temporary ticket cache on k5start failure if -o, -g, or
    -m were given.  Based on a patch by Rasmus Borup Hansen.

    The -H flag to k5start or krenew may now be used in conjunction with
    -K and controls whether the ticket is renewed when the command wakes
    up.  Normally, the ticket will be renewed if it will expire sooner
    than two minutes after the next time the command will wake up.  If -H
    is specified, its value replaces the default value of two minutes.
    Patch from Michael Lass.

    Add a new -a option to both k5start and krenew that, when used with
    -K, tells those programs to refresh tickets every time they wake up.
    This is useful with -t to ensure that the AFS token renewal program is
    always run, even if something else renews the ticket cache before
    k5start or krenew wake up.  It also provides more predictable ticket
    refresh behavior.  This probably should have been the default with -K
    from the beginning, but the default wasn't changed to keep backward
    compatibility.  Consider always using -a with -K.  Based on a patch by
    Andrew Deason.

    Fix k5start and krenew to not incorrectly reject the -b flag in
    conjunction with -K or a command.  Patch from Lars Hanke.

    Update to rra-c-util 5.9:

    * Add missing va_end to xasprintf implementation.
    * Improve portability to Kerberos included in Solaris 10.
    * Use appropriate warning flags with Clang (currently not warning clean).
    * Use Lancaster Consensus environment variables to control tests.
    * Use calloc or reallocarray for protection against integer overflows.
    * Suppress warnings from Kerberos headers in non-system paths.
    * Assume calloc initializes pointers to NULL.
    * Assume free(NULL) is properly ignored.
    * Improve error handling in xasprintf and xvasprintf.
    * Check the return status of snprintf and vsnprintf properly.
    * Preserve errno if snprintf fails in vasprintf replacement.
    * Fix probing for Heimdal's libroken to work with older versions.
    * Improve POD tests.
    * Fix kafs compilation failure on Solaris 11 or later.
    * Drop concat from the util library in favor of asprintf.
    * Fail on any error in [bx]asprintf and [bx]vasprintf.
    * Pass --deps to krb5-config in the non-reduced-dependencies case.
    * Silence __attribute__ warnings on more compilers.

    Update to C TAP Harness 3.4:

    * Fix segfault in runtests with an empty test list.
    * Display verbose test results with -v or C_TAP_VERBOSE.
    * Support comments and blank lines in test lists.
    * Check for integer overflow on memory allocations.
    * Reopen standard input to /dev/null when running a test list.
    * Don't leak extraneous file descriptors to tests.
    * Suppress lazy plans and test summaries if the test failed with bail.
    * runtests now treats the command line as a list of tests by default.
    * The full test executable path can now be passed to runtests -o.
    * Improved harness output for tests with lazy plans.
    * Improved harness output to a terminal for some abort cases.
    * Flush harness output after each test even when not on a terminal.
    * Only use feature-test macros when requested or built with gcc -ansi.
    * Drop is_double from the C TAP library to avoid requiring -lm.
    * Avoid using local in the shell libtap.sh library.
    * Silence __attribute__ warnings on more compilers.
    * runtests now frees all allocated resources on exit.

You can download it from:

    <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/>

This package is maintained using Git; see the instructions on the above
page to access the Git repository.

Debian packages have been uploaded to Debian unstable.

Please let me know of any problems or feature requests not already listed
in the TODO file.

-- 
Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>