idmap api

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

At 21:09 25.10.2002 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>"Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > here's a proposal for the idmap api;
> >
> > we'll have a cache that will be asked first, if this fails we ask the
> > central idmap and add the result to our cache.
> >
> > the idmap_central_* functions should be plugable/selectable (different
> > backends should be allowed here)
> >
> > and the backend should decide how to handle unmapped id's.
> >
> > comments please
> >
> > /* idmap api */
> > NT_STATUS idmap_sid_to_id(DOM_SID *sid, int *id, BOOL *group);
>
>I don't like this bit.  I would prefer it returned somthing that was
>typesafe - say use two paramaters or return a struct or somthing.  The
>size of a uid_t is probably the same as a gid_t, but may not be the same
>as int.

yes, I thought of a struct with a union in it.

struct unix_id {
         BOOL group;
         union {
                 uit_t uid;
                 gid_t gid;
         } unix;
}


>Andrew Bartlett
>
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