Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support

[Booker Bense]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2003, David Howells wrote:
>
> > > >  (2) gettok(const char *fs, const char *key, size_t size, void *buffer)
> > > >
> > > >      Get a copy of an authentication token.
> > >
> > > Not sure what the use of this is for userspace. I can see how your
> > > kernel module would use it.
> >
> > OpenAFS has it, but I'm not sure what uses it.
>
> The simplest case: "List my tokens" (if you want any sort of detail about
> them). A program "tokens" does just this, lists all tokens you have, then
> enumerates with GetToken to get each and print some information about them
> (are they expired, for instance).
>
> There are also some debugging tools which can pull tokens back out and
> decode them using the server key, and some old primitive authentication
> passing stuff which is probably now all obsolete did also.
>

- It may be obsolete, but there are a lot of people using AFS
token passing in ssh.

_ Booker C. Bense