Chris Samuel wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Mark Hahn wrote:
why V4?
- security. within a cluster, I don't see the point to, say, kerberos.
Agreed, not to mention all the pain of trying to get Kerberos tickets passed
through the queueing system and the fact that if you're running a 3 month job
it's going to be quite hard to persuade your Kerberos admin to let you be
able to create a ticket that lasts that long..
Purely as a point of interest, since high energy physics labs use AFS
(and hence kerberos) they have already faced this one.
The ticket is extended when a batch job is submitted:
http://services.web.cern.ch/services/afs/arc.html#SECTION00040000000000000000
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