Re: LUG: Losing Kerberos Authentication? - Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:26:41 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Losing Kerberos Authentication?

From : Jack Neely <jjneely@pams.ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:26:41 -0400

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:46:46PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running version 3 of the Realm Kit. I frequently run long
> simulations with my machine, and so I tend to leave the machine logged
> in overnight. When I come back the next day, I am not able to run any
> programs on the machine without logging out and logging back in (I use
> KDE as the desktop environment). I can't even open a shell (with the
> exception of ctl-atl-F1, etc.) in the desktop environment. Sometimes I
> dont' want to log out if the simulations are still running, so I am
> asking if there is a solution to this problem. My roommate suggested
> that it could be related to my Kerberos tokens expiring, is this the
> problem? Is it something else? Is there an easy fix? Thanks!
>
> Randy Barlow

Yes, kerberos tickets and AFS tokens expire after a set amount of time.
Use the 'klist' and 'tokens' commands to see when your tickets/tokens
expire.

You can use the 'kreset' command to renew your authentication.

Jack
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