On 08/11/2010 07:22 PM, Neil Brown wrote: > > I agree. And surely it can all be solved in idmapd. > > On the server, tell idmapd to map all users to "NUMERIC_USER:%d" and all > groups to "NUMERIC_GROUP:%d" (or whatever) for some given clients (i.e. stop > ignoring the 'authentication name'. And of course map those names back to > numbers. > > I don't know if the client can easily differentiate based on which server it > is talking to, but there is probably less need there (and maybe it can > anyway). > > It shouldn't take more that half an hour to hack something into > idmapd.c:nfsdcb() for the server side and nfscb for the client side - or > for a quicker hack, just go directly to imconv and ignore the client name on > the server. (all this in nfs-utils of course). I took a look... and you are right it would not be that difficult to hack something up... but would this only be a Linux to Linux thing? Or am I missing something? steved. -- 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
