I have an AFS account at a remote location (athena.mit.edu, cern.ch, ir.stanford.edu, etc). How do I log into that account?
It’s hard for CS to give explicit instructions because each site can implement a variety of AFS configuration options which affect authentication. AFS ships with a Kerberos 4 implementation by default which some sites use. Others have standardized on a hacked version of AFS with Kerberos 5, including MIT Athena and LNS. And some other sites use DCE, which runs yet another version of Kerberos and AFS. Confusion reigns. The OpenAFS project has officially stated it’s intention to migrate OpenAFS to Kerberos 5 in the near future, so the various compatibility issues ought to be resolved over time. White II includes utilities to support the traditional Kerberos 4/AFS system along with MIT Kerberos 5/AFS used here, but we make no promises that it will actually work at any arbitrary remote site. If you run into trouble contact a System Administrator at the remote site and ask for documentation or help. If he or she can’t solve the problem alone have him or her contact CS. Together we’ll likely
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