[586] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Changing cell names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gardiner Myers)
Fri Feb 7 14:35:28 1992
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1992 13:20:05 -0500 (EST)
From: John Gardiner Myers <jm36+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
Cc: ta_harper@pnlg.pnl.gov, Info-AFS@transarc.com, d3f082@maddog.pnl.gov
In-Reply-To: <9202062030.AA19849@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU>
Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU> writes:
> [...] MIT never saw any utility in doing this, so you can rename a
> realm fairly easily.
The utility is that someone with access to a user's key in one realm
(such as an administrator for that realm) may not then use that key to
break into the user's account in another realm, should the user be
using the same password in both realms.
_.John
