From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 17 19:38:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.ece.utexas.edu (marvin.ece.utexas.edu [128.83.52.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CD114C30 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:38:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu) Received: (from bgrayson@localhost) by marvin.ece.utexas.edu (8.8.8/8.6.9) id VAA28713; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:37:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990817213718.A28662@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:37:18 -0500 From: "Brian C. Grayson" To: wsanchez@apple.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Cc: pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs References: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com>; from Wilfredo Sanchez on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:17:45PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:17:45PM -0700, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > A group of us at Apple are trying to figure out how to handle > situations where a filesystem with "foreign" user ID's are present. (I don't know if this has already been mentioned -- it hasn't on tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, which is where I saw this.) Have you looked at mount_umap(8)? I (naively) think it would solve most of your concerns. ``The mount_umap command is used to mount a sub-tree of an existing file system that uses a different set of uids and gids than the local system. Such a file system could be mounted from a remote site via NFS or it could be a file system on removable media brought from some foreign loca- tion that uses a different password file.'' Brian Grayson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message