Lisa Week wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote: > >> Tim Haley wrote: >>> I am sponsoring the following fast-track for Lisa Week. It introduces >>> a new reserved uid and gid for purposes of improved ACL manipulation >>> when an id is not mappable by the client or server. Requested binding >>> is patch/micro. Timeout is 1/6/2010. >> >> Do the client and server exchange the unknown user id numerically or >> via a string? If a string, does fixing the userid matter, or is it the >> name that's important? > > With NFSv4 the unknown user is exchanged via a string. You will see the > user go over the wire looking something like "unknown at sun.com". (Of > course, the Solaris NFSv4 client won't send this user over the wire.) > > Giving "unknown" a userid matters when it comes to the rest of the > stack. For example, the ACL structures (ace_t and aclent_t) use uid_t's > to distinguish the users and groups in the ACL. > > Thanks, > Lisa > >
I would expect this to mean that the local uid doesn't matter in that case, right? Or are we hardcoding the proposed number in the kernel? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
