Single site-wide uid space

[Marcus J. Ranum]

> 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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