[OpenAFS] Manually Creating Cross Realm Users

Chris McClimans Chris.McClimans@ttu.edu
Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:35:29 -0500


Does this mean that the pts entry would be username for the principal 
username@REMOTE.REALM and I could pts createuser username -id 12345?
-chris

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:31  PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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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