From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 9:53:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out1.apple.com (mail-out1.apple.com [17.254.0.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B026E14F0E for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:53:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wsanchez@scv1.apple.com) Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA22586 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:52:30 -0700 Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (mailgate1.apple.com- SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:30:45 -0700 Received: from joliet-jake (joliet-jake.apple.com [17.202.40.140]) by scv1.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA25969; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908181630.JAA25969@scv1.apple.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" Subject: Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com In-Reply-To: <199908180508.WAA55082@scv4.apple.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:30:48 -0700 From: Wilfredo Sanchez Reply-To: wsanchez@apple.com X-Mailer-Extensions: SWSignature 1.3.2 X-Mailer: by Apple MailViewer (2.106) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | > when new media is available and it will try to mount it. The present | > behaviour in Mac OS X Server is that everything mounted this way is | > trusted, though the Finder should be requesting nosetuid; I should | > check that. It's also possible that the kernel will number drives in | > a different order (eg. /dev/sd0a this boot might be /dev/sd1a next | > boot), particularly if you are shuffling drives around. (Remember | > that hot-swap complicates this.) So a string like "/dev/sd0a" in | > fstab is fragile, and it works out better if we keep that information | > on the mounted media rather than on the root volume. | | What happens with conflicting names? Append "_1", "_2", etc. -Fred -- Wilfredo Sanchez, wsanchez@apple.com Apple Computer, Inc., Core Operating Systems / BSD Technical Lead, Darwin Project 1 Infinite Loop, 302-4K, Cupertino, CA 95014 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message