With these new options, its now possible to use metastore when getpwuid' andgetgrgid' don't work (for example on a server when the user list isn't present in `/etc/passwd' directly, but hidden somewhere on the network. This problem actually occurred occured for me while trying to use metastore on a server and didn't allow me to use it. So it would probably be very useful for other users in such scenarios also.
I just haven't added the man-page entry for these options because I don't have any experience in them. If you feel its good to merge with master, could you please add man page entries for it too?
With these new options, its now possible to use metastore when
getpwuid' andgetgrgid' don't work (for example on a server when the user list isn't present in `/etc/passwd' directly, but hidden somewhere on the network. This problem actually occurred occured for me while trying to use metastore on a server and didn't allow me to use it. So it would probably be very useful for other users in such scenarios also.I just haven't added the man-page entry for these options because I don't have any experience in them. If you feel its good to merge with master, could you please add man page entries for it too?