[578] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Changing cell names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christer Bernerus)
Thu Feb 6 03:57:04 1992
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 09:10:32 +0100 (MET)
From: Christer Bernerus <bernerus@animal.cs.chalmers.se>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com, d3f082@maddog.pnl.gov, Jeanette_Dravk@transarc.com
Cc: ta_harper@pnlg.pnl.gov
In-Reply-To: <kdY4Nf70BwwQ01MBpG@transarc.com>
Excerpts from AFS: 5-Feb-92 Re: Changing cell names
Jeanette_Dravk@transarc. (949)
> This works out to the following steps:
> Change the cell name in ThisCell and CellServDB on every machine in the cell.
> -you can do an 'fs newcell' to avoid rebooting the machines.
But if you only do this, the cache mgrs will still recognize the old
name ... Beware!
> Restart the servers the server processes to pick up the new changes.
> Change the KeyFile on every file server and database server.
> Change every user's password in the database so that it is encrypted (and
> can thereafter be decrypted) properly.
Do you by this mean that I as a System admin can change the encrypted
passwords or do I need the cooperation of all my users ?
Why is the encryption key so tightly coupled to the cell name ?
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