On 26 Jan 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Fellow AFS-ers
>
> Here in the lab we are faced with a major restructuring of the company.
> One of the consequences is that management will probably ask us to
> re-vamp our infra structure in a way that all references to the old
> company and culture are eradicated.
>
> If that happens we are faced with having to change the domain name and
> the AFS cell name at this site.
>
> Does any of you have any expereinces with this? Some good advice, does,
> don'ts. trivia, non trivia etc etc.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Joop
>
We are also thinking about a new cell name. Therefore I made some
experiments and my experience is the following:
1) I changed the CellServDB on my client putting in the same db-servers as
before, but under the new cell name.
2) I changed ThisCell to the new name.
3) I made a mount point for the new cell's root.cell (which, of course,
is the old root.cell volume)
If you are able to get a token for this "new" cell, you can work as before.
All commands except those to the kaserver run fine.
In our case to get a token is not that difficult, because we are using
MIT kerberos. But with the AFS StringToKey-algorithm the cell name is
mangled into the key and you will no chance to convert your kaserver
database.
However, you don't need run MIT-kerberos in order to get rid of the cell
name dependency: Just change kpasswd and kas to use for the new passwords
the MIT algorithm instead of the AFS one. (Easy, if you have a source license!)
Then after a while all passwords will be cell name independent and you
can change the cell name.
Hartmut
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