[OpenAFS] clientName.name: AFS ID v. UNIX UID

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Marcus Watts wrote:

> The short answer is "it doesn't mean a thing".

It did to the Andrew Mail System. Luckily, that is dead now.

> The longer answer is that the logic in log/tokens.c is actually driven
> by logic in auth/ktc.c which is where "aclient->name" gets filled in
> with with ct.ViceID.  There's an even-oddness kludge that drives this.
> ct.ViceID comes from the cache manager, but the cache manager doesn't
> actually use this for anything useful (apparently not even error
> messages).  The cache manager is actually just returning the token that
> some other program, such as klog, login, or aklog stuffed into the
> kernel.  So it's actually that program that drives which message you
> see.