[OpenAFS] Re: unix owner/group of files in AFS

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:20:21 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Adam Megacz wrote:

>
> Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
>>> Hey neat, the output of 'ls' shows pts names.
>
>> i actually did this years ago, before there was nss, and let it
>> drop. but, the issue when you have not coordinated local uids and pts
>> ids is when do you do an afs lookup and when do you do a local uid
>> lookup?
>
> At least for glibc I think you can tell it to try one and if that
> fails try the other.  So I guess you'd just have to make sure there's
> no overlap.

yeah, that's wretched. also, how do you deal with foreign cells?