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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:49:05 -0400
From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
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To: Noam Meltzer <noam@primarydata.com>, Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
CC: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] NFSv4 rpc.idmapd plugin
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On 03/20/2014 03:33 AM, Noam Meltzer wrote:
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> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com <mailto:simo@redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 13:25 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>     > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:58:59PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
>     > > On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 11:24 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>     > >
>     > > > V4 servers now have an option of returning a uid string (aka "3606")
>     > > > where the NFS client just converts that into the uid.
>     > >
>     > > Can the client tell the server *not to do that* ?
>     >
>     > The client can use kerberos, in which case the server won't do that.
> 
>     This is sufficient, thanks.
> 
>     > Other than that, no, the behavior can only be controlled by server-side
>     > configuration.
> 
>     A little sub-optimal if the server can do either but the client can have
>     a choice, but ok.
> 
> 
> Sorry for the late response. A misplaced email filtering rule had moved it away from my inbox.
> How can we push this forward?
> 
Not sure since I don't maintain any of the code these patches change... 

steved.