Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support for Numeric Representations of UIDs and GIDs.

[Tom Haynes <tdh-8AdZ+HgO7noAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Steve Dickson wrote:
> In recent NFS v2/v3 to v4 transitions, one of the sticking 
> points have been that fact v4 uses strings in the format
> of "user@domain" instead of 32bit integers for uids and 
> gids.
>
> When the string can not be mapped, its mapped to the 'nobody'
> user which is not optimal for things like backup servers and
> such where the ids will not be know by both sides.
>
> So this patch series enables the server to send out numeric 
> string of uids and gids that do not have the '@domain' part.
> The series also adds functionality to the client that parse these
> type of strings and will use the numeric representation
> of the ids iff the id exists on the client, which is 
> sightly different that Solaris. Solaris dose not have that
> "id must exist" restriction.
>   

No, Solaris does have that restriction.


> Steve Dickson (2):
>   Teach clients to map numeric strings into valid uids and gids.
>   Add server support to use of numeric strings for uid and gids.
>
>  utils/idmapd/idmapd.c |   52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
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