Real utility of idmapd

[Kevin Coffman]

On 3/22/07, Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse at inria.fr> wrote:

> So name-based mapping appears to be working upside down here...
>
> The above is expected.  For example, if the client is stat'ing a file,
> then the server must translate the uid and gid stored in the file's
> inode into a string name that an NFSv4 client will understand.
> It works on the client, indeed: files owned by uid 501 on the server
> appears to be owned by user of the same name on the client, even if he
> has a different uid there (500).

Thanks, I was confused on where "there" was at the end of this statement.