Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t

[Anand Kumria]

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > Well known aliases (what *exactly* are these ?)
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Administrators  - 544
> > Users           - 545
> > Guests          - 546
> > Power users     - 547
> > Account operators - 548
> > System operators  - 549
> > Printer operators - 550
> > Backup operators  - 551
> > Replicator        - 552
> 
> these are _local_ machine groups.
> 
> the well-known aliases apply to these "local domains", whereas the well
> known groups apply to the "remote domain".
> 
> does that make sense?  does anyone agree / disagree / know better / can
> explain this better?  mr john terpestra, any ideas / comments?

Perhaps aliases menas group + additional privilages. Most of the aliases
you listed also have some privilage associated with them (share disks with
Power, backup/restore with Backup, etc.)

Anand.

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