Re: Bug in kinit and afslog

[Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> Maybe it would be better to put the principal name in the token
>> instead of the potentially completely wrong UID?
>
> I hate to ask ... why do you care what UID is in there?  It was only used
> by one piece of software that I know of (the Andrew Mail System).

I hope none of our scripts/software cares - but users do, incl. myself.

It is really irritating to look at your AFS token and see a UID that
you don't expect. In most cases a user would not even try to use such
a token because it is "just wrong".

-- Alf.

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