From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 17 19:46:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out1.apple.com (mail-out1.apple.com [17.254.0.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD8814C33 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:46:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wsanchez@scv3.apple.com) Received: from mailgate2.apple.com ([17.129.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA18942 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:46:46 -0700 Received: from scv3.apple.com (scv3.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:46:42 -0700 Received: from joliet-jake (joliet-jake.apple.com [17.202.40.140]) by scv3.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA06434; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:46:40 -0700 Message-Id: <199908180246.TAA06434@scv3.apple.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" Subject: Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Cc: umeshv@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, pwd@apple.com, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:46:37 -0700 From: Wilfredo Sanchez Reply-To: wsanchez@apple.com X-Mailer-Extensions: SWSignature 1.3.2 X-Mailer: by Apple MailViewer (2.106) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | I assume you mean Joe uses something like sudo | so he can mount the disk.. Joe doesn't use the shell. The Finder will do this for him; when you insert a floppy in Mac OS, it gets mounted and shows up on your desktop. This is the case with all media. | So allow users to use the fancy new mount command (with certain limitations on | the mountable device node of course...) Yes, the fancy command is what the Finder does for him. Options are details, and not really interesting. The question is what should the behaviour be, and what's happening underneath the covers to support that? Are we mapping UID's to something meaningful? How? Or is Joe a superuser for that volume? Which volumes get treated this way, and how to you choose them? -Fred -- Wilfredo Sanchez, wsanchez@apple.com Apple Computer, Inc., Core Operating Systems / BSD Technical Lead, Darwin Project 1 Infinite Loop, 302-4K, Cupertino, CA 95014 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message