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Article #23Re: NFS ID mapping
From: Ed Gould
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 23:08
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 23:08
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>>Maybe we should go to something like the Ethernet scheme: Use 80-bit >>UIDs built as follows. ... > >This is getting very close to the "capability" concept. No, capabilities are really much more than UIDs: They don't just identify an object, they contain access rights as well. And, usually (although there's no real reason for this limit), capabilities identify only system-managed objects like files and processes, not users. I was just suggesting a truely global UID scheme. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA ed@mtxinu.COM +1 415 644 0146 "I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: NFS ID mapping Message-ID: <906@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: 30 Jun 89 23:08:53 GMT References: <1120@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <10406@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1839@auspex.auspex.com> <10463@smoke.BRL.MIL> <903@mtxinu.UUCP> <10472@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: ed@garcia.mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 17