On 7/31/19 12:16 PM, Björn Persson wrote: > Fabio Valentini wrote: >> You can add your "kerberos account" to GNOME online accounts once, and >> it will automatically renew tickets for you. >> This way you'll never have to type your FAS password (or run kinit) >> for this again. > > First, I don't use Gnome 3 because a software engineer's workstation has > other needs than a hand-held Facebook terminal. Did you really have to include this? A simple 'I'm sorry, I don't use Gnome' would have been fine... > > Second, As I understand what I've been told about Gnome Online Accounts, > it would keep me constantly logged in to Fedora servers as long as I'm > logged in to my workstation. That's appropriate for a corporate network > or a university campus, which I suppose is what Kerberos is designed > for. It's not appropriate for a project that I sometimes contribute to > when I have time and when something needs doing. > > Fedora needs an authentication method that authenticates on demand, not > proactively, using a keyring that isn't tied to a single desktop. Things are moving (all be it slowly) toward OIDC. Sorry they are all over the place right now... kevin
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