> 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