On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 17:57 -0400, Jim Rees wrote: > Daniel.Muntz@xxxxxxx wrote: > > I'll fourth this motion. The spec goes out of its way to declare this a > violation. IMHO, the NFSv4.[0-n] specs should adopt the convention that a > uid string consisting of [0-9]+ be interpreted as the string > representation of a numeric UID--just as valid as a "user@domain" string. > > I argued for this as an option in the early days but was shouted down. > Sorry I can't remember the details, it was many years ago. Why is nobody talking about fixing AUTH_SYS? The alternative to using numeric uids/gids in NFS would be to use user@domain/group@domain in the credential. I believe that Nico had some proposals for RPCSEC_GSSv3 that addresses this issue. If adopted, it would even be backwards compatible with NFSv4.0. Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
