[OpenAFS-devel] bos superusers and pts extended names

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Wed, 8 May 2013, Simon Wilkinson wrote:

>
> On 8 May 2013, at 20:29, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>
>> As such, the UserList configuration file for bos is no longer sufficient, as it is not compatible with possibly-binary data.
>
> I wrote an implementation of this for YFS in 2010, which was contributed 
> to OpenAFS in September of that year. It's on master. Take a look at 
> afsconf_DeleteIdentity, afsconf_GetNthIdentity, afsconf_AddIdentity and 
> afsconf_SuperIdentity.

Hmm, I guess I was paying less attention to master in 2010 than I am now, 
sorry I missed it.

> The commit message (0af17e7eccb79dd7d618c98dc0b489d55209df50) discusses 
> the file format. Essentially, we store things in the current UserList 
> file.

Thanks for the pointer.

I guess we get to move on to talking about how to actually store extended 
names in the prdb, now?  Or is that solved already, too?

-Ben