CVS update: samba/source/include

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Wed Nov 21 09:26:15 EST 2001


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:14:39AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> > Er, OK.  I'm still not 100% with this vuid business.  So multiple
> > vuids can occur over one connection?  This means the printer_admin
> > cached value thingy needs to be set when at register_vuid or
> > thereabouts?
> 
> *My* understanding of this whole mess is that vuids and tids are entirly
> independent of each other.  As such any access control *must* be done
> either on the vuid alone (NT does this) or on the combination of the
> vuid and the tid.  If printer admins are indeed admins for all printers,
> then the place is the vuid, and function is register_vuid.  If not you
> get to invent a new way of doing all this... (properly) :-)

So when did tree ids come in to it?  Are tree ids per TCP connection?

If printer admins are admins for all printers (i.e a global parameter)
does that mean vuids are unique across all TCP conncections?


Tim.




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