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PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Web Administration Guide

ID mapping

The Identity (ID) mapping service maintains relationship information between mapped Windows and UNIX identifiers to provide consistent access control across file sharing protocols within an access zone.

NOTE:ID mapping and user mapping are different services, despite the similarity in names.

During authentication, the authentication daemon requests identity mappings from the ID mapping service in order to create access tokens. Upon request, the ID mapping service returns Windows identifiers mapped to UNIX identifiers or UNIX identifiers mapped to Windows identifiers. When a user authenticates to a cluster over NFS with a UID or GID, the ID mapping service returns the mapped Windows SID, allowing access to files that another user stored over SMB. When a user authenticates to the cluster over SMB with a SID, the ID mapping service returns the mapped UNIX UID and GID, allowing access to files that a UNIX client stored over NFS.

Mappings between UIDs or GIDs and SIDs are stored according to access zone in a cluster-distributed database called the ID map. Each mapping in the ID map is stored as a one-way relationship from the source to the target identity type. Two-way mappings are stored as complementary one-way mappings.


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