[OpenAFS] Manually Creating Cross Realm Users

[Chris McClimans]

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 09:59  AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

>> $ pts listmax
>> Max user id is 5000000 and max group id is -211.
>> $ pts createuser -name crossrealmuser@ttu.edu -id 1004
>> pts: argument illegal or out of range ; unable to create user
>> crossrealmuser@ttu.edu with id 1004
>
> you want this, and you don't get to specify an id in this range.
> "foreign" pts users get high bit(s) set to indicate they're foreign, 
> iirc,
> but in any case begin with a high number and count up by some greater 
> than
> 1 number.
>
> pts createuser -name crossrealmuser@ttu.edu

So since all my users are crossrealm it seem to be the case that I will 
be unable to specify the AFS UID in any manner other than it's lower 
limit. That is an odd constraint, but I almost understand the logic. I 
will be forced to use the dynamically generated AFS UID as my unix UID 
if I want things to match up well.

Is there  a migration path for a system where unix UID's are delegated 
from an authority other than AFS?
-chris