On 1 May 2002, Derek Atkins wrote: > I would assume that PTS would continue to behave as it does today, > mapping a principal name to an AFS ID. Note that that is _all_ that > PTS does -- it maps names to numbers, and maintains group lists (again > mapping names to numbers).
Well, GetCPS is a little more complex than that, but generally yes. > Also note that foreign users work today, and I don't see how this > would change. If a user in realm1 authenticates to the AFS service in > realm2, they get a cross-cell authentication and PTS would convert > user@realm1 to AFSID-nnn. This is exactly how it works today, so I > don't see the issue. No way to do foreign user mapping to a local user, or have more than one auth id map to a since PTS id; With support for multiple ways of authenticating you want a way for many things to be one user, since, well, they will be. But as Derek says nothing *requires* it to change. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
