[OpenAFS] Kerberos 5, AFS, and no krb524d

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:17:48 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

> At one point a while back I wrote code to support krb5 syntax, but didn't get it
> committed at the time since Derrick wanted to hold off.

Well, it wasn't my decision alone, but yes. The problem is / is a valid
character in older ids (instead of a separator) so we'd be creating a
namespace conflict. For sites using / but not migrating to krb5 and this
needing to resolve the problem we'd have screwed them.