From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>,
Daniel.Muntz@emc.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: numeric UIDs
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:43:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6559FA.5070809@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100812092232.344314b2@notabene>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-13 14:43 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
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 [this message]
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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