Gary Winiger wrote: >> Two special ACE types will be added to allow a user to specify a >> Windows SID in place of an ephemeral uid/gid. >> >> Both chown(1) and chgrp(1) will be enhanced to allow setting the >> owner and or group of files by SID rather than ephemeral id. > > How will this affect audit of chown(2), acl(2)? In particular when > the audit trail file is processed on another system, or after a > reboot? Will ephermeral uid's be stored in the audit trail file? > How will praudit(1M), auditreduce(1M) be changed by this project? > > Gary..
This change doesn't change any syscalls. All it does is allow a user to specify SIDs and then uses the idmap(1M) API to convert those to ephemeral IDs. -Mark
