[OpenAFS] Re:OpenAFS for x86 solaris 8 (new issues!)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Alan Meadows wrote:

> Here's the problem:
> 
> I cannot authenticate for the life of me.  Running "klog admin@cell.com" 
> and "klog admin" on the Solaris machine itself running the OpenAFS server 
> processes all return the same error message: "Unable to authenticate to AFS 
> user doesn't exist".  Doing "kas examine admin" I see that the user 
> exists.  The curious thing though is that if I enter in the wrong password 
> for the "admin" user I get an appropriate Incorrect Password error 
> message.  I have also tried using uss and the steps outlined in the IBM 
> guides for manually creating additional AFS users and they also return the 
> same error message when I try to obtain a token for them.

pts examine admin

you say:
> I have made sure that the AFS "admin" user has the same UID (101) as the 
> user "admin" in the local password file.  According to the documentation, 
> AFS is most happy when users exist with the same UIDs in both places.

which implies it does exist.