On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:45:17 +0100 "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I didn't look at the whole patchset in detail, but I think > such a new API should support IDMAP_BOTH, which means that > a sid can resolve into a uid and a gid at the same time. > > This is very important as it allows groups to own files > e.g. BUILTIN\Administrators is likely to be the owner of a lot > of files. And it's the only way to support the 'sIDHistory' for users. > > metze > I'm not sure I understand how that would work. The situation is often going to be something like this: "The kernel has an ACL that it has fetched from the server. That ACL has a SIDs in it that are designated as the user and group owner. The goal is to turn those into the st_uid and st_gid values as presented by stat()." So...how does IDMAP_BOTH come into play here? -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx>
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