[OpenAFS-devel] Minimum autoconf version

[Tim Spriggs]

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?
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>
> Yup.
>
>> What was the motivation for this mapping in the first place?
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>
> . 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.