On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Peter J. Braam wrote:
>
> > Good discussion! A few pieces of information from AFS/Coda land below:
>
> Hey there Peter -- hope life is going well for you.
>
> > > The same lack of semantics on the "id" part which allows local clients
> > > to map their own local uid space any way they want, also prevents
> > > local clients from doing any useful parsing of remote ids. For remote
> > > ids, utf/8 is the only token available.
> >
> > In fact the world local takes on two meanings. In a large local realm
> > it is not feasible for a client to cache the entire local realm's user
> > database and perform mappings. It also becomes highly impractical to
> > give users the same uid across systems. Interestingly, I think that
> > neither Coda nor AFS at present support uid mapping.
>
> This was the conclusion I reached also -- right now, my POSIX.1e ACL
> implementation has ACL_TYPE_CODA and ACL_TYPE_AFS which mean that the ID
> namespace for each entry in the ACL is the "local" AFS/Coda realm, similar
> to handling of chown (and that the AFS/Coda ACL semantics hold).
Is this per ACL or per ACE?
Where's the documentation of all those things, including acl_check_file()
and such?
Thanks,
Andreas.
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