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
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