[OpenAFS] Manually Creating Cross Realm Users

[Derek Atkins]

If ___all___ your users are "crossrealm", why not just obtain an
afs/<your-cell>@THEIR-REALM key and use that?  For example,
afs/sipb.mit.edu@ATHENA.MIT.EDU.  Then all users name@THEIR-REALM will
be "local" to your AFS cell....

-derek

Chris McClimans <Chris.McClimans@ttu.edu> writes:

> 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
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