Florian Daniel Otel wrote:

> The only question remaining is: "Is this a feature or a bug?" i.e. is
> this intentional, and/or anything I can do to fix this and still have
> AFS usernames containing "/" characters  ?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Florian

This is a historical artifact of the method in which names in the PTS
database were arrived at when using Kerberos 4.   In Kerberos 4 the
component separator is ".".  Therefore, since there currently are no
methods for specifying a separate Kerberos 5 form of the name, the
Kerberos 5 component separator is mapped to ".".  This allows both
Kerberos 4 and Kerberos 5 to be used for the same PTS name.

There are proposals to alter the PTS database to allow multiple
authentication mechanism specific names to be associated with a given
PTS ID value.  If this work is completed, then the same ID could be
associated with

        PTS name     jaltman.admin
        Kerberos 4   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        Kerberos 5   jaltman/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Jeffrey Altman

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