>  Period will cause you no end of grief if used in AFS account names. 
Kerberos
>  assumes a period separates a domain(cell) from a principal(account).  Don't
>  use them.  When I ran into this problem in our cell 2 years ago, I renamed
all
>  the bad accounts to "-admin" instead of ".admin".  Fortunately, there were
only
>  a small number (5 or so) of them at the time.

Kerberos assumes a . separates a principal from an instance, and an @ the
principal or principal/instance from the realm. So that's not it.

-D

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