[OpenAFS] principal confusion: afs/??@REALM

Ken Hornstein kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:19:36 -0500


>Hrm, can somebody tell me what the final word is on which of these the
>AFS principal for a cell should be?
>
>  afs/REALM
>  afs/@REALM
>  afs/cell@REALM
>
>It seems that aklog isn't consistent about which principal it chooses
>to try to get tickets for...

As long as we're talking about the one that's included with OpenAFS (and
not certain Linux packages), it always looks for afs/cell@REALM first.
This is consistant; if it isn't, I'd like to hear about it.

afs/@REALM is the same as afs@REALM; it's just that I was lazy when
doing the debug printf().

--Ken