From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 4:23:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orchard.arlington.ma.us (orchard.epilogue.com [128.224.138.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA18157FB for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 04:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us) Received: from orchard.arlington.ma.us (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by orchard.arlington.ma.us (8.8.8/1.34) with ESMTP id LAA27515; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:19:46 GMT Message-Id: <199908181119.LAA27515@orchard.arlington.ma.us> To: Marc Ramirez Cc: Ignatios Souvatzis , 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: Message from Marc Ramirez of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 06:30:07 EDT." Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:19:46 -0400 From: Bill Sommerfeld Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message