Re: [PATCH] cifs: Fix getting reparse points from server without WSL support

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:34:31PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 September 2024 13:31:22 Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > It will break all SID -> uid / gid mapping that servers must
> > carefully set up.
> >
> > On the wire - SIDs must be the only source of identity.
>
> Ok. But then I do not understand why Linux client parses and uses uid
> and gids which are sent over the wire. If you are saying that the SIDs
> must be the only source of truth then Linux client should rather ignore
> uid and gid values?

Yes. I think that should be the case. It's not my code
though, so take that as my free 2 cents opinion :-).

Samba will never expose uids / gids on the wire over
SMB2+ though (it's too late for that mistake we made
in SMB1).