Simon Wilkinson wrote:
>
> On 9 May 2009, at 16:29, Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ wrote:
>>>
>> Yes, there are dots. no slashes or other special characters.
>
> By default, OpenAFS disallows principals with dots in them.
>
> This is due to the way it translates principals with instances into
> pts names - essentially it does a Kerberos 5 -> Kerberos 4 name
> mapping, so that sxw/admin (for example) would become sxw.admin. In
> this case, the Kerberos principal sxw/admin is then indistinguishable
> from the sxw.admin prinicpal - which is potentially dangerous. To play
> it safe, principals with a dot in the first component are simply
> disallowed.
>
> If you are confident that there are (and will be) no principals in
> your domain which collide in this way, then you can disable this check
> by starting all of your servers with the -allow-dotted-principals option.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
Is it even possible to setup principals with '/' in their names on W2K8 ?

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