[OpenAFS] Realm master password.

[Charles Clancy]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Daniel [ISO-8859-1] Sw=E4rd wrote:

> Hi. Is it possible to recover the master password for a cell/realm? I
> just realized that I've forgotten where I wrote it. Also, since I used
> that password only to setup the realm, what is it used for after that?
>

It's not used for anything else after that (well not visibly anyway --
it's used heavily behind the scenes).  You don't need to remember what it
is.  In fact, changing it will make all the connected clients very
unhappy.

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