On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:52:02AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Nicolas Williams wrote: > .. > Yes! .. > Yes! .. > Yes! .. > > - SIDs really are superior to UIDs/GIDs - to begin with SIDs support a > > hierarchical namespace, whereas UID/GIDs can only implement a flat > > namespace > > This is one thing that Windows got right :-) Indeed. And the principal area where *nix incarnations have not improved. At least *BSD and Solaris have cred_t and treat it sufficiently opaquely that very little kernel code needs to be changed (but lots must be added). Whereas Linux still spreads all sorts of process credential info all over the proc structs. > Well, Andrew Tridgell wants to push SIDs into the [Linux] kernel and I > want to push them into FreeBSD, and indeed, the work being done in FreeBSD > anticipates much of what you want, I think :-) Have you formulated the APIs yet? I'd love to help specify this... > Regards > ----- > Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, > sharpe@ethereal.com Thank you, you've made my day :) Nico -- -DISCLAIMER: an automatically appended disclaimer may follow. By posting- -to a public e-mail mailing list I hereby grant permission to distribute- -and copy this message.- Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
