[OpenAFS] ktc_principal, smbname and Windows

[Rodney M Dyer]

Mr. Lopes,

It looks like you are trying the same thing we did.  We never encountered 
your problem because all of our usernames are 8 characters or less.  This 
is because we have a history in UNIX (Sun OS and Solaris) and most unix'es 
don't allow, or don't promote the use of usernames longer than 8.  This is 
probably just for that reason.  Eg. programmers hardcoding limits in unix 
code so UNIX has to live with the legacy until all the code gets fixed.

This has caused some aggravations because Novell and Microsoft allow longer 
names.  Even Microsoft limits usernames to 14 characters.  In this respect 
I'm surprised that you would have longer names, I mean how are you getting 
logged onto the workstations?

Rodney


At 03:28 PM 4/16/2003 +0100, Bruno Lopes wrote:
>Hello
>We are using afs in our college to store the windows roaming profiles, and 
>to do that we altered some code to aklog in order for it so work when 
>running as SYSTEM and put the token on the correct cache ( strncpy'd the 
>username to the smbname field of aclient in auth_to_cell)
>Our problem now is the limitation on the smbname field , being 16 char 
>long only ( I believe), when some of our usernames are longer than that, 
>resulting in the ticket not being placed on the correct place.
>My questions are:
>Why 16? Is there a reason for that number outside of afs code? It seems to 
>be used only to tell who does the ticket belong to...
>Can it be increased? If it can, where do we need to change it?
>Has anyone else notice this problem?
>Thank You
>
>Bruno Lopes
>
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