linux-kernel - adding plan9-like usernames to the kernel

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Message-ID: <0597ffe1-f80e-d5dd-e20d-da68bd8a189a@gmx.de>
Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 13:38:49 +0100
From:   "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <metux@....de>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     aganti@...gle.com
Subject: adding plan9-like usernames to the kernel

Hi folks,

as part as a little research project for bringing Plan9 semantics
to Linux, I'd like to add textual usernames. In contrast to *nix,
Plan9 doesn't use numerical IDs, but names.

Obviously that needs some internal mapping between names and ids.

Should this go into struct user_namespace (where per-namespace
uid mapping lives) or to struct cred / struct user_struct ?

The primary consumer of this username will be the /dev/caphash
and /dev/capuse devices for switching the UID.
(an interesting question of course is, how to allocate the
numerical UIDs for given usernames)

--mtx

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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Free software and Linux embedded engineering
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