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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:19:46 -0400
From:      Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
To:        Marc Ramirez <mrami@gbtb.com>
Cc:        Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>, 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 
Message-ID:  <199908181119.LAA27515@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
In-Reply-To: Message from Marc Ramirez <mrami@gbtb.com>  of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 06:30:07 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908180624130.1866-100000@mrami.ghostgbtb.com> 

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> 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.  

huh?  NetBSD (at least) allows non-root mounts (forced to
nodev,nosuid, ..) if the user owns the mount point and has appropriate
access to the underlying device..

I thought that was a 4.4Lite feature..

						- Bill






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