Derrick J Brashear wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Tim Spriggs wrote: > >> So essentially it is not valid to have usernames with dots in them? > > > Yup. > >> What was the motivation for this mapping in the first place? > > > . was the instance separator in krb4 and hence afs. / is the instance > separator in krb5. since basically all we're doing is mapping krb5 > principals into the krb4 world (pts was not changed) and migrating > generally means krb4 user.admin *is* krb5 user/admin, mapping means > things continue to work as they did before for the same user when you > switch to krb5. > > not mapping would have sucked for anyone migrating. >
I see now. Thanks everyone for the explanation. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
