On 15 January 1998 Garrett D'Amore wrote;
Hi,
GD> Period will cause you no end of grief if used in AFS account names.
GD> Kerberos assumes a period separates a domain(cell) from a principal
GD> (account). Don't use them. When I ran into this problem in our cell
GD> 2 years ago, I renamed all the bad accounts to "-admin" instead of
GD> ".admin". Fortunately, there were only a small number (5 or so) of
GD> them at the time.
We're also using Kerberos and we like the dot style.
Most off all AFS commands accepts dots in the name, why don't uss do it?
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