From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 3:33:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gbtb.com (modem3.tekrab.net [208.30.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449EE14D15 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 03:33:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrami@gbtb.com) Received: from localhost (mrami@localhost) by gbtb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA29361; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 06:30:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mrami@gbtb.com) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 06:30:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez X-Sender: mrami@mrami.ghostgbtb.com To: Ignatios Souvatzis Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs In-Reply-To: <19990818115709.A4507@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 05:00:48AM -0400, Marc Ramirez wrote: > > > > I was thinking about this the other day, while mousting a series of floppy > > disks, and it seems to me that what you're looking for, at least for > > removable media, is a sort of single-user UFS that says "Joe Schmoe owns > > this file system." > > our(*) msdos and ados filesystems (at least) do (sort of) this. Yeah. That's definitely where I'd start from. I think the main obstacle for any *BSD system in the ease-of-use department will be the must-mount-as-root issue. I don't know what's involved in getting that to work properly. Maybe the best solution is to have some sort of automount daemon. That would more than likely work for devices with media detection (Mac floppys come to mind... :) The devil's in the details... Marc. > Regards, > -is > > *) where we = NetBSD > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Marc Ramirez - Owner Great Big Throbbing Brains mrami@gbtb.com http://www.gbtb.com Our brains throb, so yours won't have to! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message