FW: Speed comp. TNG & 2.2.alpha (fwd)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> > In the long run though, we want to move to a SAM-like
> > implementation, so you only have those groups in your
> > lists, that you actualy create. For filesystem purposes you
> > map those to actual GIDs (via SURS)
> > 
> > Of course the other way round will get interesting, what
> > happens, if we have a file with a GID, that SURS does not
> > known about...
> > 
> 
> that's a system configuration error.

i also forgot to say, it's also possibly not a very good SURS
implementation
instance.

methods to auto-create SURS entries are described in
draft-lkcl-surs-v1-00.txt

[the sursswitch.conf idea came later and isn't described in there].