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

[Andrew Bartlett]

Elrond wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:08:50AM +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> [...]
> > > 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.
> >
> > what happens on unix when you ave a file owned by a uid or a gid that
> > isn't in /etc/passwd or /etc/group?
> >
> > 1) ls -al shows numbers not names
> >
> > 2) only root can change ownership of the file.
> >
> > well, we can't do an equivalent to 1) in the "unknown" circumstances, with
> > SURS.  so throw an error: let the app deal with it [access denied].
> 
> Okay, that sounds reasonable, somewhat.
> 
> Bad, there's no "nobody"-SID on NT...
> 
> (For ACLs, we can simply "ignore" unknown GIDs/UIDs, but
> for owner/group of a file, we can't. I guess, NT wont like
> it, if it requests that info and we return a NULL-ptr in
> the SD, or will it like that?)
> 
>     Elrond

Is it just me, or does the idea of effectivly changing the owner of file
to an arbitary user (nobody) which is normally used as a 'I can't break
anything' user sound like a bad idea?  It would be a pity if root
suddenly got forgotten and the entire system became owned (at least from
the NT end) by nobody.

Just my 2 cents worth,
Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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