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36.Dd March 6, 2001
37.Dt MOUNT_UMAP 8
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm mount_umap
41.Nd user and group ID remapping file system layer
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl o Ar options
45.Fl g Ar gid-mapfile
46.Fl u Ar uid-mapfile
47.Ar target
48.Ar mount-point
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Nm
52command is used to mount a sub-tree of an existing file system
53that uses a different set of uids and gids than the local system.
54Such a file system could be mounted from a remote site via NFS,
55a local file system on removable media brought from some foreign
56location that uses a different user/group database, or could be
57a local file system for another operating system which does not
58support Unix-style user/group IDs, or which uses a different
59numbering scheme.
60.Pp
61Both
62.Ar target
63and
64.Ar mount-point
65are converted to absolute paths before use.
66.Pp
67The options are as follows:
68.Bl -tag -width indent
69.It Fl g Ar gid-mapfile
70Use the group ID mapping specified in
71.Ar gid-mapfile .
72This flag is required.
73.It Fl o
74Options are specified with a
75.Fl o
76flag followed by a comma separated string of options.
77See the
78.Xr mount 8
79man page for possible options and their meanings.
80.It Fl u Ar uid-mapfile
81Use the user ID mapping specified in
82.Ar uid-mapfile .
83This flag is required.
84.El
85.Pp
86The
87.Nm
88command uses a set of files provided by the user to make correspondences
89between uids and gids in the sub-tree's original environment and
90some other set of ids in the local environment.
91For instance, user smith might have uid 1000 in the original environment,
92while having uid 2000 in the local environment.
93The
94.Nm
95command allows the subtree from smith's original environment to be
96mapped in such a way that all files with owning uid 1000 look like
97they are actually owned by uid 2000.
98.Pp
99.Em target
100should be the current location of the sub-tree in the
101local system's name space.
102.Em mount-point
103should be a directory
104where the mapped subtree is to be placed.
105.Em uid-mapfile
106and
107.Em gid-mapfile
108describe the mappings to be made between identifiers.
109.Pp
110The format of the user and group ID mapping files is very simple.
111The first line of the file is the total number of mappings present
112in the file.
113The remaining lines each consist of two numbers: the
114ID in the mapped subtree and the ID in the original subtree.
115.Pp
116For example, to map uid 1000 in the original subtree to uid 2000
117in the mapped subtree:
118.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
1191
1202000 1000
121.Ed
122.Pp
123For user IDs in the original subtree for which no mapping exists,
124the user ID will be mapped to the user
125.Dq nobody .
126For group IDs in the original subtree for which no mapping exists,
127the group ID will be mapped to the group
128.Dq nobody .
129.Pp
130There is a limit of 64 user ID mappings and 16 group ID mappings.
131.Pp
132The mapfiles can be located anywhere in the file hierarchy, but they
133must be owned by root, and they must be writable only by root.
134.Nm
135will refuse to map the sub-tree if the ownership or permissions on
136these files are improper.
137It will also report an error if the count
138of mappings in the first line of the map files is not correct.
139.Sh SEE ALSO
140.Xr mount 8 ,
141.Xr mount_null 8
142.Sh HISTORY
143The
144.Nm
145utility first appeared in
146.Bx 4.4 .
147.Sh BUGS
148The implementation is not very sophisticated.
149