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Question about Kerberos Users Principals

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MWANG.US.ORACLE.COM)
Tue Sep 3 20:44:03 1996

Date: 03 Sep 96 15:34:33 -0700
From: "MWANG.US.ORACLE.COM" <MWANG@us.oracle.com>
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU

Kerberos Expert, 
 
If I combine the Kerberos with hierarchical domain naming services ( for REALM 
) which may result in number of identical OS user IDs from different sub 
domains accross geographic locations, since the unique user ID requirement 
only applies to individual domain. My questions are: 
 
1. Can I register identical OS user IDs repeatedly with distinct passwords? 
 
2. If this is possible how Kerberos Server knows that which user is from what 
machine? Do I specify machine (node) name when I register users with Kerberos 
Server to differenciate user IDs from sub domains?  
 
Thanks in advance for your comments. 
 
 
Moses Wang 
Email: Mwang@us.oracle.com 

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