On Dec 20, 2007 9:50 AM, John Tang Boyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> ] Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> ] > So, in the
> ] > interests of fixing this quickly, we're just going to add the
> ] > afs/inf.ed.ac.uk principal, and get on with our lives.
> ] >
> ] > It's unclear to me what the 'correct' solution to actually fix aklog
> is.
> ]
> ] It is my opinion that the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" principal name is supported 
> for
> ] backwards compatibility with prior practices and that "afs/[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]"
> ] is the current best practice.
>
> Can someone describe the steps necessary to effect this change?  We
> migrated our cell to kerberos V two years ago but still use the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] shorthand.  I would expect that the change involves some
> add_principal and ktadd commands and maybe asetkey and copying
> super-secret files around, but I'm afraid if I tried to do it myself,
> I would get a kvno problem and the fileservers would stop working
> and/or it would be impossible to get AFS tokens.  If it helps,
> there's nothing wrong with leaving the old [EMAIL PROTECTED] principal alive
> and working.
>

In heimdal, at least, assuming you don't have a salted password you can just
"rename afs afs/CELL"

Annoyingly, if you use heimdal's kdc as a kaserver emulator, it then breaks
klog, because it doesn't know how to fall back if "afs@" doesn't exist.

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