Proposal/Idea: Remove support for using rfc2307 attributes for s4 id-mapping?

[simo]

On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 13:43 +0200, steve wrote:
> On 16/10/12 12:30, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:28:26AM +0200, steve wrote:
> >>
> >> We can't use cifs to serve the Linux clients as the file ownership
> >> is always that of the user who mounted the file system, not the
> >> authenticated user.
> >
> > That should only happen if you don't have UNIX extensions
> > turned on at the Samba fileserver (they should be on by
> > default). With UNIX extensions the cifsfs client will
> > query the UNIX uid/gids directly from Samba in a similar
> > way to NFS.
> >
> > Jeremy.
> >
> 
> Hi
> I'd like to be able to take nfs out of the equation but the limitation 
> which cifs imposes on file ownership is too bad.
> 
> Are you saying that I can use cifs in place of nfs for Linux clients? 
> E.g. their home directories? I want files there to be user:group 
> -rw-r--r-- cifs lets me do it for one user only. THat's no god in a 
> mutiuser domain.

you just need top enable multiuser mounts.
See the cifs docs.

> If I have a share mounted using cifs, I can specify a uid and a gid of a 
> user. If another user logs in, how do I then tell cifs that the uid:gid 
> has changed without getting root to remount the share for me?

See above.

> I've tried with autofs. Is there a way to pass the uid:gid to the 
> automounter so that it is mounted correctly?

No, autofs is not the best option in this case, although certainly an
option.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>