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From: rwwetmore@grand.waterloo.edu (Ross Wetmore)
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Subject: Re: NFS'ing the world
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Date: 5 Sep 89 17:19:27 GMT
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In article <11381@watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
>Well, if we're going to modify NFS, someone's going to have to get the
>source licenses to all the NFS implementations we have on campus and do
>the mods.  This will never happen ...
>are you suggesting that machines for which we don't have source must have
>identical passwd and group files?  I can't see how we can avoid dividing
>up the uid space.  Is SUN working on this problem?
>-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu

  Presumably the domain partitionning under stock NFS could be used to 
segregate the world into various camps. Within a camp you would decide on
whether to go with UW mods or yellow pages or strict partitionning. This
just leaves open the problem of inter-camp access.
  Note that this is a superset of the above and other options which does not
rule out development or arrangements within or between any individual camps.
  However it does depend on UW mods to NFS being done in a clean manner which 
does not break, rather only extends and is therefore compatible with, stock 
behaviour.

-Ross