Dear all, We are currently deploying the AFS system in our University and we would like to provider our users with a tool which eases the usage of AFS by doing the following steps using the user credentials: - Kerberos authentication; - Obtain AFS tokens; - Create symbolic links to the personal area and for all the groups the user pertains to.
In Linux Heimdal client it is possible to pass the password to kinit via STDIN: "echo $password | kinit $user@$realm --password-file=STDIN" . However, to our best knowledge it is not possible to do the same in Windows and Mac OS X. We also need to execute kinit command on behalf of the user since there are several users which username is of the form "name.surname". Therefore, we need to authenticate them with principal name "name/username" due to the AFS pts principal conversion. Is there any way to execute kinit, or a similar command to perform Kerberos authentication, without user intervention while using passwords instead of keytabs? Thank you, Pedro Rodrigues Computer Department FCT - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
