Re: numeric UIDs

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:43:06 -0400
Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 08/11/2010 07:22 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
> > 
> > I agree.  And surely it can all be solved in idmapd.
> > 
> > On the server, tell idmapd to map all users to "NUMERIC_USER:%d" and all
> > groups to "NUMERIC_GROUP:%d" (or whatever) for some given clients (i.e. stop
> > ignoring the 'authentication name'.  And of course map those names back to
> > numbers.
> > 
> > I don't know if the client can easily differentiate based on which server it
> > is talking to, but there is probably less need there (and maybe it can
> > anyway).
> > 
> > It shouldn't take more that half an hour to hack something into
> > idmapd.c:nfsdcb() for the server side and nfscb for the client side - or
> > for a quicker hack, just go directly to imconv and ignore the client name on
> > the server.  (all this in nfs-utils of course).
> I took a look... and you are right it would not be that difficult to
> hack something up... but would this only be a Linux to Linux thing? 
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> steved.

Yes, I was thinking only Linux to Linux.

But if it works, is well designed, and if there is a customer demand, then one
can expect it to spread (which I think is a much better way of creating
standards than the IETF process..)

NeilBrown