Subject: Re: UID/GID mapping system
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Hansen <sh@warma.dk>
To: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
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tor, 2004-03-11 kl. 15:31 skrev Jesse Pollard:
> > 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.
> It will be a major security vulnerability.

Well, I COULD repeat myself over and over again....
Short answer:
No.
Long answer:
Nooo.

> > *: For ext2, this could come in handy if you are moving disks between
> > systems.
> Mapping fails in this case due to UID loops (been there done that too

You haven't seen a line of code I've written for this yet, and already
you're telling me that I implemented it the wrong way because that's
what you did when you once tried?

I BTW also fail to see why it all of the sudden is my problem that
people have more than one user on the same system. (Hint: it isn't)

-- 
Salu2, S?ren.

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