From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 4:42:14 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 22CAE14F68 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 04:42:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrami@gbtb.com) Received: from localhost (mrami@localhost) by gbtb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA30150; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:39:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mrami@gbtb.com) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:39:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez X-Sender: mrami@mrami.ghostgbtb.com To: Bill Sommerfeld Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs In-Reply-To: <199908181119.LAA27515@orchard.arlington.ma.us> 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 [ 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