Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:06:35 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com Subject: Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Message-ID: <v04210106b3dfdfd720f5@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990818122547.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <XFMail.990818122547.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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At 12:25 PM +0930 8/18/99, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >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) The question is being sent to several different BSD groups. One of the newer BSD's being MacOS X (Ten) from Apple (follow on to NeXTSTEP, except that it's a much more MacOS-ish as far as the user interface). MacOS X (Ten) Server already uses code from FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. This isn't a freebsd problem per se, but wouldn't it be nice if Apple went with a solution that made sense to the other BSD groups? (particularly if someone in *BSD-land has already thought about the same issues). Some of Apple's OS-level changes have been donated back to the BSD groups, and if they implement a good solution to this problem then the other BSD's might want to pick it up. It's nice to see them asking for ideas before casting some implementation in stone... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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