[OpenAFS] Odd syncing behaviour AFTER upgrade

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:03:27 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:

> But looking at an account today I suspected that maybe the databases
> were not in sync, and that the user and the admin were getting different
> answers from talking to different servers (we have three).  So I tried
> the following with the following results:
>
> % kas exa JoeUser -server server1
>   ...
>   User is locked forever.
>   ...
> % kas exa JoeUser -server server2
>   ...
>   User is not locked.

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> Wait a minute.  Aren't these databases supposed to agree?

The kaserver "account locked" stuff is in an external, unsync'd database.

> Anybody seen this?  What's going on, and how do I fix it?

Make your users get their passwords right, or just disable the account
locking.