Re: periods in user names (was /usr/afsws/etc/uss)

[Ben_Cox]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> V5 deals with this in a different manner.  In V5, a principal is named
> by one or more slash-separated parts.  The most common cases are those
> with only one part (a username), or those with two parts, where the
> second is a hostname, service instance, or user instance.  No part can
> contain a slash, but apparently a principal name can contain more than
> one part.  Caveat: I've never actually tried that; YMMV.

It works fine in the DCE version of K5; host principals are named
hosts/<hostname>/self in the DCE.  Other per-machine DCE services are
similarly named: hosts/<hostname>/dfs-server, etc.

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Ben Cox                                 [EMAIL PROTECTED]