Hi folks,
as part as a little research project for bringing Plan9 semantics to Linux, I'd like to add textual usernames. In contrast to *nix, Plan9 doesn't use numerical IDs, but names. Obviously that needs some internal mapping between names and ids. Should this go into struct user_namespace (where per-namespace uid mapping lives) or to struct cred / struct user_struct ? The primary consumer of this username will be the /dev/caphash and /dev/capuse devices for switching the UID. (an interesting question of course is, how to allocate the numerical UIDs for given usernames) --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287
