Hi! > > Hint: This *same exact* problem has been an issue for NFS for at least 25 > > years. Might want to think about (a) why Yellow Pages (and later LDAP) was > > developed, and (b) why NFS "root squash" traditionally maps to "nobody" rather > > than a usable UID. > > I don't see how that helps us here. Sure, a uid != 0 could be used > for the mapping but which one? The uid of user 'nobody' is not the > same across distros. So just use -1 ? Having it map to root is dangerous AFAICT. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
