[6795] in Kerberos
allowing multiple usernames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Samuel Weiler)
Thu Feb 29 23:44:50 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 1 Mar 1996 02:44:25 GMT
From: weiler@condor.sccs.swarthmore.edu (Samuel Weiler)
Situation: a small college campus with multiple groups of workstations,
each administred by different folks, and each with different username
schemes. Allowing multiple usernames per person may be a political
prerequisite to implementing Kerberos. Is there a solution other than
setting up each username as a different principal?
More specifics: one sub-domain requires a specific username format
(ie. sweiler1), others allow free choice (ie. samuel or weiler). I
don't think there are any cases where one username is used by
different people on different systems (happily). To gain wide acceptance,
free choice will have to be permitted, but the first group mentioned
may not go for it.
--
Samuel Weiler <weiler@sccs.swarthmore.edu>
