Security Identifier (SID) to User Identifier (uid) Resolution System

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

read the article carefully.  the first thing it states is that there is a
convention followed by all POSIX systems that the same local POSIX uid is
used on multiple POSIX systems to represent the same physical user.

luke

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Drash, Jim [EESUS] wrote:

> I am very confused.  I just read an article that Windows 2000 has adopted
> the kerboros security model. Kerberos has been available to POSIX sytems for
> years. Why do we need another? POSIX systems don't support the concept of
> remote POSIX users? WHAT? Then how do I telnet in from one system to anther?
> How do I get X-Windows apps on one system to use my local X-server for
> display?      
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [mailto:lkcl at samba.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:36 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
> > Subject: Security Identifier (SID) to User Identifier (uid) Resolution
> > System
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl/cifs/draft-lkcl-sidtouidmap-00.txt 
> > (and .html)
> > 
> > Abstract:
> > 
> > This document proposes a convention to allow Windows NT users to be
> > represented on POSIX-based systems and Unix users to be represented on
> > NT-based and compatible systems, such as Windows NT 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, and
> > Samba.  The convention has relevance to POSIX-based Windows 
> > NT compatible
> > systems such as Samba, in order to allow such systems to interoperate
> > in a diverse Windows NT Domain environment, even though POSIX systems
> > currently have neither native support for the Windows NT 
> > Security model
> > nor support for the concept of remote POSIX users.
> > 
>