Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:58:01 -0500
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Hansen <sh@warma.dk>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UID/GID mapping system
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:29:17AM +0100, S?ren Hansen wrote:
> ons, 2004-03-10 kl. 23:45 skrev Trond Myklebust:
> > If you really need uid/gid mapping for NFSv2/v3 too, why not just build
> > on the existing v4 upcall/downcall mechanisms?
> 
> 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.

The latter at least you could already do; just modify the v4
upcall and downcall to map between uid's and uid's instead of mapping
between uid's and names.

--Bruce Fields
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