Re: NFSv4 behaviour on unknown users

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On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:00:08AM -0800, Thomas Haynes wrote:
> 
> On Dec 7, 2010, at 4:15 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> > 
> > (I see AUTH_SYS as a different issue.  It's unfortunately true that
> > AUTH_SYS has effectively turned out to be required-to-implement even if
> > it wasn't meant to be, so maybe the spec's out of line with reality
> > there; but I haven't heard of that causing any practical
> > problems--whereas "why does ls show all users as nobody after an upgrade
> > to NFSv4" is a FAQ.)
> 
> If everyone were to adopt this approach to solve the FAQ, then wouldn't we
> want it to be specified to make sure that interoperability was maximized?

Sorry for the confusion--that last paragraph was just about AUTH_SYS,
not about user/group-naming.

Sure, I'd be happy to propose changes to the user/group-naming (which is
all in section 5.8 of 3530, I think, or is there some scattered
elsewhere?)

--b.
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