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retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups'
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups' |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:05:12 +0200 |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Didi <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> If by "unknown" you mean nameless, that's not what the patch does.
>>> Such a patch would not even have been considered.
>>
>> I agree that hiding this information in some cases might not be
>> optimal, but the main problem is that through this the 'groups'
>> command becomes utterly useless and confused quite a lot of users.
>> $ groups
>> users id: cannot find name for group ID 1091323188
>> 1091323188
>>
>> further
>>
>> $ id -Gn
>> users id: cannot find name for group ID 1091323188
>> 1091323188
>
> If someone can provide code to determine efficiently
> whether a nameless GID is a PAG then we can probably
> make everyone happy. If that happens, I'll need to
> know if there's a standard or accepted mapping from
> GID to PAG group name. Pointers to unencumbered code
> would be welcome.
Since you guys are interested in AFS, I'm hoping one of you will
respond to the above. I'll wait a few days, after which, if I don't
hear anything, I'll just revert to the old behavior.
Ideally, someone would write a patch (just outlining it is better
if you haven't already sent in FSF copyright paperwork for coreutils)
to fake a group name for a nameless group ID that is a PAG.
A hint for the ambitious: Davor Ocelic suggested that
libnss-afs already does at least some of this...
- coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/19
- Message not available
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/20
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Russ Allbery, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Davor Ocelic, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Didi, 2008/04/21
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH, 2008/04/21
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/21
- retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups',
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Adam Megacz, 2008/04/22
- Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Jim Meyering, 2008/04/23
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR), 2008/04/25
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Russ Allbery, 2008/04/25
- coreutils-6.11 released, Elbert Pol, 2008/04/20
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/21
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Elbert Pol, 2008/04/21
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/22
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Elbert Pol, 2008/04/22
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/22