Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:07:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl> To: Marc Ramirez <mrami@gbtb.com> Cc: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Message-ID: <19990818120704.27BC81D58@wit401310.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908180729110.1866-100000@mrami.ghostgbtb.com>
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On 18 Aug, Marc Ramirez wrote: > 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. No miracle, the mount command has uid 0 hardcoded in the source where you are checked if you are allowed to use the mount command. I've been thinking of a neat way to re-organize that code myself for some time now, and thought I had come up with a solution (It's the reason I subscribed to this list in the first place). With the current discussion, I figure it has some major shortcomings. It adds some things too, though, like the permissions to audio devices, etc. Anyway, I wrote a "paper" about it that I can post here if anybody is interested. In that case, which format s liked best: plain text, TeX or postscript? I assume the first. -- Alban Hertroys. http://wit401310.student.utwente.nl == If there is a here-after, then there are much more people dead than alive. Even that much more that the number of living people is insignificant in comparison to the dead ones. Thus it is safe to say that we don't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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