Re: sharing UIDs between Solaris and Linux
Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:22:49 +0100 (MET)
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> Linux's uid appears to be 16bit, while Solaris' uid is 32bit? This makes
> it problematic to share uid entries (/etc/passwd) in our heterogenous
> networking environment. UIDs in our university are assigned beyond our
> control, and since Solaris is the primary OS on campus, new accounts are
> being assigned UIDs around 80000 and higher simply due to the lack of
> space under 65534.
>
> Is there any way I can work around this? Am I correct that to convert
> linux's uid to long I'd have to recompile the kernel and all the user
> programs as well? And I don't know if this would work at the end, either.
Not only that, ext2fs has 16bits for UID in inodes as well...
Cheers,
Jakub
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