Single site-wide uid space
Marcus J. Ranum
mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com
Wed Nov 28 07:29:49 AEST 1990
> steve at arezzo.siemens.com (Steve Giovannetti) writes:
> Has anyone come up with schemes for maintaining a single site-wide uid
>space? I am in the process of developing one for our site.
There's a utility called 'zap' (now something like unify_uids)
that was written at University of Maryland that is useful for doing the
mapping over to your unified user-id space once you've sorted out the
administration. It reads a map of uids, opens the superblock, and frobs
the inodes - fast, sure, and deadly - superblock death from above.
mjr.
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