[OpenAFS] aklog Principal not found

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:36:11 -0800


Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> writes:
> Harald Barth wrote:

>> Many libraries assume that the realm is in uppercase. If you really
>> named your realm mteege.de I would suggest you rename to MTEEGE.DE if
>> you still can. Cell names normally are lower case (as yours).
>
> Cell names are case insensitive.  Therefore it doesn't matter how you type
> it.  By convention they are normalized to lowercase before comparison.

However, be warned that some versions of OpenAFS won't work if you put the
cell name in uppercase in ThisCell.  (I think this is a bug that we later
fixed, but it caused us some consternation.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>