Another patch to nfs-utils

Lukas Hejtmanek xhejtman at ics.muni.cz
Thu Jul 3 12:08:43 EDT 2008


Kevin,

my further modifications of nfs-utils are related to idmapd and mainly
libnfsidmap. Currently, we have two possible translation methods: umich and
nsswitch. Umich relies on ldap and nsswitch usually on /etc/passwd and
/etc/group files.

I made another translation method called mnsswitch that resembles nsswitch
except the files. I use /etc/passwd-nfs4 and /etc/group-nfs4 for mapping,
their format is almost identical to /etc/passwd and /etc/group except it
contains user names including their domains so that it is usable in
cross-realms. We do not want to use ldap because it makes nfs4 depending on
another running service while the files are always available.

Whould you be interested as well on not at all?

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek


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