On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Ian Smith wrote:
Not wanting to hijack this (interesting) thread, but .. I have to concur with Rick P - that's rather a odd requirement when each FreeBSD install since at least 2.2 has come with root and toor (in that order) in /etc/passwd. I don't use toor, but often enough read about folks who do, and don't recall it ever being an issue with NFSv3. Are you sure this is a problem that cannot be coded around in NFSv4?
Currently when the nfsuserd needs to translate a uid (such as 0) into a name (NFSv4 uses names instead of the numbers used by NFSv3), it calls getpwuid() and uses whatever name is returned. If there are more than one name for the uid (such as the above case for 0), then you get one of them and that causes confusion. I suppose if the FreeBSD world feels that "root" and "toor" must both exist in the password database, then "nfsuserd" could be hacked to handle the case of translating uid 0 to "root" without calling getpwuid(). It seems ugly, but if deleting "toor" from the password database upsets people, I can do that. rick _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
