From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 17 22:17:30 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 6B6F414D8B for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:17:22 -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 OAA01621; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:47:36 +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:990818144736:5786=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: <199908180508.WAA55082@scv4.apple.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:47:36 +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:990818144736:5786=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 18-Aug-99 Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > when new media is available and it will try to mount it. The present > behaviour in Mac OS X Server is that everything mounted this way is > trusted, though the Finder should be requesting nosetuid; I should > check that. It's also possible that the kernel will number drives in > a different order (eg. /dev/sd0a this boot might be /dev/sd1a next > boot), particularly if you are shuffling drives around. (Remember > that hot-swap complicates this.) So a string like "/dev/sd0a" in > fstab is fragile, and it works out better if we keep that information > on the mounted media rather than on the root volume. You could wire all the disks down.. :) What happens with conflicting names? --- 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:990818144736:5786=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN7pB8FbYW/HEoF9pAQFx+wP9ETiv7rCar4SQVfb1Axl4EQQdLHykdp/9 kCgEGwIyGIroCpAZmSgw44fPTfDHugjqan1ChqpjJPglfZnB+S3w100RdMEZcKBx dV7CZiRarIc4tv8zKCGRP9+TJImTQi1RU/1Xyp8Hl66ednch4CIhndPStFcNZS/V 7D/1owvceuM= =qLSI -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990818144736:5786=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message