NFS ID mapping
Ed Gould
ed at mtxinu.COM
Sat Jul 1 09:08:53 AEST 1989
>>Maybe we should go to something like the Ethernet scheme: Use 80-bit
>>UIDs built as follows. ...
>
>This is getting very close to the "capability" concept.
No, capabilities are really much more than UIDs: They don't just
identify an object, they contain access rights as well. And, usually
(although there's no real reason for this limit), capabilities identify
only system-managed objects like files and processes, not users.
I was just suggesting a truely global UID scheme.
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