NFS ID mapping

[Ed Gould]

>>Maybe we should go to something like the Ethernet scheme:  Use 80-bit
>>UIDs built as follows.  ...
>
>This is getting very close to the "capability" concept.

No, capabilities are really much more than UIDs:  They don't just
identify an object, they contain access rights as well.  And, usually
(although there's no real reason for this limit), capabilities identify
only system-managed objects like files and processes, not users.

I was just suggesting a truely global UID scheme.

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