Re: Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Sun, 5 Apr 1998 13:32:28 +0100 (BST)

Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 1998 13:32:28 +0100 (BST)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au>, "Gerald W. Carter" <cartegw@eng.auburn.edu>
Subject: Re: Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980404155201.12666B-100000@roadrunner.eng.auburn.edu>

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Gerald W. Carter wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Or are they like
> > > Unix uids and gids, separate and each populated
> > > starting with zero?
> >
> > what do you mean by this?
> >
>
> For example, root user has a uid of 0 and the root ( or wheel ) group has
> a gid of 0. These are totally difference number spaces. I think this is
> what he means.

ok ta for clarification jerry. no they are not different number spaces:
user rids and group rids are... oh what's the mathematical term.
unique-in-the-same-number-space.

luke