[OpenAFS] "group prefix doesn't match owner"

[Jason Edgecombe]

Adam Megacz wrote:
> Is there any reason why pts won't let system:administrator create groups
> whose prefix does not match any user?
>
>   $pts ex blah
>   pts: User or group doesn't exist so couldn't look up id for blah
>   $pts creategroup blah:booh
>   pts: Badly formed name (group prefix doesn't match owner?) ; unable to create group blah:booh 
>
> Clearly this can be circumvented by system:administrator:
>
>   $pts cu blah
>   User blah has id 100015
>   $pts creategroup blah:booh -owner blah
>   group blah:booh has id -1012
>   $pts delete blah
>   $pts ex blah:booh
>   Name: blah:booh, id: -1012, owner: 0, creator: megacz,
>     membership: 0, flags: S-M--, group quota: 0.
>
> is there a danger in doing this, other than perhaps confusion?
>
>   - a
>
>   
When creating a group foo:bar as admin, I often find that I have to use 
the -owner parameter to see the owner to foo(something).

Jason