Just allow the user to authenticate as "userid@cell". There is
a afs call for splitting out the fields of this form of userid already
written.
-- Nathan
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 06:25:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Has anybody explored options on how to authenticate to multiple
> AFS cells on an NT workstation that gets to AFS via Samba?
>
> In the samba source, the AFS authentication call is-
>
> if (ka_UserAuthenticateGeneral(KA_USERAUTH_VERSION+KA_USERAUTH_DOSETPAG,
> this_user,
> (char *) 0, /* instance */
> (char *) 0, /* cell */
> password,
> 0, /* lifetime, default */
> &password_expires, /*days 'til it expires */
> 0, /* spare 2 */
> &reason) == 0)
> return(True);
>
> Which leaves the cell name blank -- which (I guess) goes to the samba
> server's AFS cell. I suppose we could list out the cells to authenticate
> to...but would prefer to avoid that expense, if there are better options.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
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