From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: numeric UIDs
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:22:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803192216.GC31579@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100803164318.GB13896@merit.edu>
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:43:18PM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> Victor Mataré wrote:
>
> I'd like to try and
> make a case for implementing an option to turn off UID mapping completely (or
> at least for unknown UIDs).
>
> I've always thought this would be useful too, just as an option for auth_sys
> of course. Some people think it's a security problem but since there is no
> security in an auth_sys mount I don't see what the issue is.
I'm not sure what the security flavor has to do with it.
I'll admit I like the idea of a v2/v3-compatibility mode that uses
(ascii-encoded) uid's only, though I think it's a technical violation of
the spec.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-03 2:01 numeric UIDs Victor Mataré
2010-08-03 16:43 ` Jim Rees
2010-08-03 19:22 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2010-08-03 21:49 ` Daniel.Muntz
2010-08-03 21:57 ` Jim Rees
2010-08-03 22:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-08-03 22:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-03 22:31 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-08-03 22:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-04 2:02 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-08-04 17:06 ` David Brodbeck
2010-08-04 18:30 ` Andy Adamson
2010-08-04 21:32 ` David Brodbeck
2010-08-11 23:06 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-12 13:20 ` Andy Adamson
2010-08-11 23:10 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-05 15:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-11 23:22 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-13 14:43 ` Steve Dickson
2010-08-13 16:31 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-13 17:30 ` Steve Dickson
[not found] ` <4C658146.90207-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-08-13 17:37 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-13 18:43 ` Chuck Lever
2010-08-17 17:46 ` Tom Haynes
2010-08-17 18:18 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-17 18:43 ` Tom Haynes
2010-08-17 18:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-17 19:21 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <4C6559FA.5070809-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-08-16 8:30 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-13 14:40 ` Steve Dickson
2010-08-03 19:22 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-17 17:48 ` Tom Haynes
2010-08-17 18:24 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-17 19:00 ` Tom Haynes
2010-08-17 20:08 ` David Brodbeck
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