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Re: [OpenAFS] Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: [OpenAFS] Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups' |
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Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:19:38 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <address@hidden> writes:
> with the keyring code, PAG's are no longer exposed to the user
> as a number.
This is not entirely correct. The PAG is still exposed to the user as a
supplemental group even when keyrings are in use; the code just no longer
relies on it existing and will recreate the group when needed.
> however, in the older group based PAG support, the PAG id is encoded as:
>
> ('A' << 24) + (pagCounter++ & 0xffffff));
>
> but this is split across two groups, given that most gids are still 16
> bits in most places.
Linux now uses a single GID for the PAG.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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- 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, 2008/04/22
- 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
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