From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 17 19:58:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1E414E99 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26747; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:25:47 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990818122546:5786=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: <199908180246.TAA06434@scv3.apple.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:25:47 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Wilfredo Sanchez Subject: Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990818122546:5786=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 18-Aug-99 Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > 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. Yes... Why is this a FreeBSD problem then? I would have thought it would be up to MacOS to do the UID remapping (I must be missing something) > 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? If you want proper username mapping shouldn't you be using a distributed user map (like NIS)? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990818122546:5786=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN7ogslbYW/HEoF9pAQFErAP/Y7sh82TgDUFqo0of45aUu0Ww+rELNd75 Q3C4V9L9qPTAZJfxMT7HKuJgOXMUWFkoPxmZQ+tywW6iG7YfmuQENNqkkAmu+yTY 7uXEeQgYDDKkTRm7lg6cfFYXNMB3u7dNHOFW7G27vFSuTFx6Bmmnwm1CKf3PUFRg S6qEFr+ooZQ= =RR8W -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990818122546:5786=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message