[OpenAFS] Re: unable to login via klog

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, February 08, 2007 05:33:57 PM +0530 Srikanth Bhaskar 
<srikanth.bhaskar@gmail.com> wrote:

> [root@bri6506-5-l2-l-4 ~]# kas -cell linafs
> Password for root:
> kas:interactive: Auth. as root to AuthServer failed: user doesn't exist
> Proceeding w/o authentication
> ka> list
> Password for root:
> list: Auth. as root to AuthServer failed: user doesn't exist
> Proceeding w/o authentication
> list: caller not authorized calling KAM_ListEntry
>
> any idea what it means when it asks for "Password for root:"??

kas doesn't use your existing tokens; you have to authenticate when you run 
it.  If you don't use the -admin_username argument to tell it your 
username, it makes a guess based on your local username.  So if you are 
logged in as root, it assumes 'root' is also the name of the admin account 
you want to use.