On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > since 2.4.x and for 2.5/2.6 the uid/gid values are > 32 bit each, so UID32/GID32 are default (no reason > to limit them to 24bits).
Even better (and bigger :-) > vservers and contexts require to'tag' files with > context ids/tags ... and this can be done by either > using some of the uid/gid bits or otherwise unused > space in the on-disk inode structures ... OK, then is it possible to use this feature to span vservers from the main server. Currently I'm resetting the UID/GID MIX/MAX in each vserver so they can be unique across all vservers. I use the context (assigned per vserver) as the - upto - first three numerals ie., UID_MIN 3100, UID_MAX 3199. Gives me a clue when I'm really tired which vserver's disk space I'm looking at from the main server. I'm hoping to discover a way to blend/mix all the passwd files so I get user ID 'xyzzy' when listing files for the 'xyzzy' vserver's main user - xyzzy. Maybe I'm chasing rainbows with this idea. Rod -- "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."
