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From: "Søren Hansen" <sh@warma.dk>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UID/GID mapping system
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:29:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078993757.1576.41.camel@quaoar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078958747.1940.80.camel@nidelv.trondhjem.org>

ons, 2004-03-10 kl. 23:45 skrev Trond Myklebust:
> The NFSv4 client and server already do uid/gid mapping. That is
> *mandatory* in the NFSv4 protocol, which dictates that you are only
> allowed to send strings of the form user@domain on the wire.

Clever! 

> If you really need uid/gid mapping for NFSv2/v3 too, why not just build
> on the existing v4 upcall/downcall mechanisms?

Because that would require changes to both ends of the wire. I want this
to:
1. Work for ALL filesystems (NFS, smbfs, ext2(*) etc.)
2. Be transparent for the server.

*: For ext2, this could come in handy if you are moving disks between
systems.

-- 
Salu2, Søren.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-11  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-08 19:45 UID/GID mapping system Søren Hansen
2004-03-09 16:46 ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-09 19:28   ` Søren Hansen
2004-03-10 15:28     ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-10 17:58       ` Søren Hansen
2004-03-10 21:41         ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-10 22:45           ` Trond Myklebust
2004-03-11  8:29             ` Søren Hansen [this message]
2004-03-11 14:31               ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-11 14:45                 ` Søren Hansen
2004-03-11 15:58               ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-03-11 19:41               ` Trond Myklebust
2004-03-12  8:41                 ` Søren Hansen
2004-03-11 14:10             ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-10 23:46           ` Andreas Dilger
2004-03-11 14:08             ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-11 16:02               ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-03-12 13:58                 ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-12 20:08                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-03-15 17:17                     ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-15 17:49               ` Andreas Dilger
     [not found]             ` <fa.ct61k6d.bm43gj@ifi.uio.no>
2004-03-11 19:40               ` Kevin Buhr
2004-03-11 23:10                 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-12 14:49                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-11  8:22           ` Søren Hansen
2004-03-11 14:18             ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-11 14:39               ` Søren Hansen
2004-03-12 13:52                 ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-12 15:00                   ` Søren Hansen
2004-03-15 17:05                     ` Jesse Pollard
2004-03-16  8:08                       ` Søren Hansen
2004-03-09 19:28   ` Søren Hansen

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