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

[Ken Hornstein]

>> _However_ ... the principal conversion code in MIT Kerberos 5
>> assumes that your V4 instance names are "short".  I don't know how
>> it behaves if you're using FQDNs for instances with V4.  So beware
>> if you're planning on migrating.
>
>Actually, we did migrate, and it works just fine.

You sure like proving me wrong, don't you? :-)

Fair enough; it's pretty obvious that "long" V4 instances work just
fine.  So having a PTS entry with multiple periods is obviously fine as
well (which was the entire point of this discussion :-) ).

--Ken