From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 6 12: 2:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.calderasystems.com (phoenix.calderasystems.com [207.179.18.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C725C150FB for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:01:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drdavis@calderasystems.com) Received: from calderasystems.com (drdavis@buddha.calderasystems.com [207.179.18.42]) by phoenix.calderasystems.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA05721; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:01:32 -0600 Message-ID: <37FB9D31.A18617F4@calderasystems.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 13:04:17 -0600 From: "Darren R. Davis" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61C-CCK-MCD Caldera Systems OpenLinux [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Narvi Cc: Pat Dirks , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------C4BCBF28B5B8D71A215DBEBD" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C4BCBF28B5B8D71A215DBEBD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Narvi wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm the File Systems Tech Lead at Apple in the Mac OS X Core OS group. > > We've been struggling with the question of how best to handle permissions > > on disks that are moved between systems for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: > > the problem is that numeric IDs in inodes (or their moral equivalent) > > written on the filesystem on one system don't necessarily map to the same > > user, if they're valid at all, on another system (although they MIGHT). > > With ZIP drives holding appreciable volumes of data and multi-gigabyte > > FireWire drives becoming more common this is an issue that will > > definitely pop up more and more as people carry data with them on > > removable disk filesystems. > > > > [snip] > > Have you given consideration to systems where the user/group database is > kept for (possibly a large) number of computers in a centralised manner by > say hesiod or nys (nis+). It would be nice if there was an easy interface > with these so that distributing the local system id numbers need not be > done by hand. > > > -Patrick. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message If I was going to look into that kind of approach I would seriously look into some sort of Directory Server tie in through LDAP. Darren --------------C4BCBF28B5B8D71A215DBEBD Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="drdavis.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Darren R. Davis Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="drdavis.vcf" begin:vcard n:Davis;Darren tel;fax:801.765.1313 tel;work:801.765.4999 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.calderasystems.com org:Caldera Systems, Inc.;Engineering adr:;;240 West Center Street;Orem;UT;84057;USA version:2.1 email;internet:drdavis@calderasystems.com title:Director of Research x-mozilla-cpt:;-5088 fn:Darren Davis end:vcard --------------C4BCBF28B5B8D71A215DBEBD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message