Re: adding plan9-like usernames to the kernel

2018-02-07 Thread Casey Schaufler
On 2/7/2018 4:38 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Hi folks, > > > as part as a little research project for bringing Plan9 semantics > to Linux, I'd like to add textual usernames. In contrast to *nix, > Plan9 doesn't use numerical IDs, but names. > > Obviously that needs some internal

Re: adding plan9-like usernames to the kernel

2018-02-07 Thread Casey Schaufler
On 2/7/2018 4:38 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Hi folks, > > > as part as a little research project for bringing Plan9 semantics > to Linux, I'd like to add textual usernames. In contrast to *nix, > Plan9 doesn't use numerical IDs, but names. > > Obviously that needs some internal

adding plan9-like usernames to the kernel

2018-02-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Hi folks, as part as a little research project for bringing Plan9 semantics to Linux, I'd like to add textual usernames. In contrast to *nix, Plan9 doesn't use numerical IDs, but names. Obviously that needs some internal mapping between names and ids. Should this go into struct user_namespace

adding plan9-like usernames to the kernel

2018-02-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Hi folks, as part as a little research project for bringing Plan9 semantics to Linux, I'd like to add textual usernames. In contrast to *nix, Plan9 doesn't use numerical IDs, but names. Obviously that needs some internal mapping between names and ids. Should this go into struct user_namespace