[OpenAFS] Fileserver doesn't recognise host-principals

[Frank Burkhardt]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:34:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Frank Burkhardt <fbo2@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > I've got a strange problem here. Some of my AFS-client-machines must
> > put some stuff into AFS on a regular basis. Since all of them have
> > a host/...-Keytab, I wanted to use it as AFS-identity:
> >
> >  admin@afs $ pts create host.somehost.cbs.mpg.de
> >  User host.somehost.cbs.mpg.de has id 2000000044
> 
> AFS uses K4 principal naming, so the PTS ID has to be rcmd.somehost.  AFS
> will map host/somehost.your.domain to rcmd.somehost internally before
> checking ACLs.

Thank you - that was the problem. Is there any reason for this "anomaly"? Is
it possible to disable it?

Regards,

Frank