From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 17 22:27:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.theinternet.com.au (zeus.theinternet.com.au [203.34.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E160A156FB for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@mail.theinternet.com.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mail.theinternet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA16220; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 15:23:51 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from akm) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199908180523.PAA16220@mail.theinternet.com.au> Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs In-Reply-To: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com> from Wilfredo Sanchez at "Aug 17, 1999 7:17:45 pm" To: wsanchez@apple.com Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 15:23:50 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +----[ Wilfredo Sanchez ]--------------------------------------------- | 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. | The basic problem is that the user experience using Unix semantics | are not really pleasant. I think some examples would help: Why not simply translate unknown ids to the current user? I don't mean modifying the owners on disk. The real problem comes if a new user gets that unknown ID, but, you have this problem anyway where the user exists. I say "simply" as in concept, not as in work required :-) -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message