Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:39:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@gbtb.com> To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908180729110.1866-100000@mrami.ghostgbtb.com> In-Reply-To: <199908181119.LAA27515@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
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[ CC's trimmed ] On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > 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.. Oh! I was under the impression that it just didn't work, even with correct perms, but I use FreeBSD. Lemme try it... Can't mount, even with 0666 on /dev/fd0. Maybe I'm being stupid. Wouldn't be the first time! Marc. > I thought that was a 4.4Lite feature.. > > - Bill -- 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
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