Hi, I don't know what the current practice is, but for a number of years IS&T (or the former IS) had been recommending to departments that when they created local solutions they use the same namespace with respect to the usernames. The reason for making that recommendation was that when departments later started to integrate their local solutions with the larger infrastructure they would not have name conflicts and users would not have to think about what username to enter in different contexts.
All of that is a long way of saying, in many cases the local username is likely to be correct when mapped to the Athena realm. Of course there will be cases where this is not true. But I question assumptions that this will be the majority of the time. Paul Kevin Koch wrote: > Before NIM has a default identity, it prompts for a password for <WINDOWS > USERNAME>@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. Leash leaves the Name field blank. Leash > suggests what kind of name to enter in the line 'You are required to enter > your Kerberos Password.' > > MIT support staff believe that users will try to obtain credentials and > fail, whenever the Windows username isn't the same as the Kerberos username. > > > Has there been any other user feedback about the password prompt dialog? > > I propose improving the user understanding of the password prompt dialog by: > > . Adding a line of explanation, as in Leash, above the Username line: > "Enter your Kerberos password." > . Restoring this Leash behavior: initialize the Username text entry field to > blank. > . Changing the text "Username" to the left of the text entry field to > "Kerberos\r\nUsername." > > Thanks. > > Kevin Koch > Kerberos for Windows Lead Software Engineer > Information Services & Technology > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > 304 Vassar St. W92-143 > Cambridge, MA 02139 > 617-324-8949 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > kfwdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kfwdev _______________________________________________ kfwdev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kfwdev
