On Tue, 12 May 2009 20:10:29 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Novell Storage System (NSS) on Linux isn't based on this at all.
> 
> How does NSS know who is trying to access the files?  Do you have to use
> a non-Linux login to connect to the storage system or something?

Yes, you login through eDirectory.

The eDirectory user can be a LUM (Linux User Management) enabled user, 
which uses the LDAP integration to authenticate local users to the 
directory, but yeah, it can be configured to be entirely independent of 
the OS' use of UID.

Jim

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