Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Olaf Kirch) | | Subject | Re: Linux-NFS/IBM Open-Edition(OS/390) | | Date | Tue, 13 May 1997 00:24:51 +0200 (MET DST) |
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To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Linux-NFS/IBM Open-Edition(OS/390) X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0]
In article <m0wQadC-0005FeC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> you wrote: : Have you looked at the ability to specify mounts that map all requests : to a fixed uid on the linux server side at all. For a networked environment : this could be very useful.
The Linux unfsd has provided that for quite a while. The exports options are something like all_squash,anon_uid=65534,anon_gid=65534. It does work, sort of, but many clients get confused by seeing what they think are wrong uids when they do their own access checks locally.
You can define a macro called DOSHACKS when compiling unfsd that massages the uids returned to the client to appear `correct' when using all_squash.
Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | Audience: What will become of Linux if the Hurd is ready? okir@monad.swb.de | Eric: Er... is Richard Stallman here?
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