2009/164 Support for guest access to CIFS/SMB shares

[Jordan Brown]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> I think a mapping of guest to the Solaris 
> nobody account would be a useful default configuration, it would then 
> match what NFS does with unknown users - which is the closest NFS 
> equivalent to CIFS guest access.

We looked at that.  It's all software, so anything is possible, but the 
current structure of the idmap processing doesn't lend itself to 
providing such a default.  The "well-known name" processing either 
doesn't yield a UID, or yields a UID that is used regardless of any 
other processing.  There's no simple way to have it produce a default 
that can be overridden.

That's an implementation detail, of course, and so if the ARC wants it 
to default to nobody we'll make it happen.