setgroups() problem w/ arla module loaded

Steven N. Hirsch shirsch at adelphia.net
Fri Jun 25 12:58:39 CEST 2004


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Love wrote:

> 
> "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch at adelphia.net> writes:
> 
> > Took a while to figure out the AliasDB file (found by grepping the 
> > sources).  Would it be possible to adopt the same file naming as OpenAFS?  
> > They call this CellAlias, FWIW.
> 
> I'm not married to the name, but if the format of the file really the same?

Seems to be.  All I did was create a symlink to CellAlias named 'AliasDB' 
and it worked.

> The format of AliasDB is documented in the manpage (AliasDB(5)), I don't
> think OpenAFS file have the same format, but I can't really say from
> browsing the code.
> 
> AliasDB is a requirement for making dynroot useful.

I agree, which is why arla and OpenAFS should have a common format and 
naming convention.






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