Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:48:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> To: Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com> Cc: 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 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990818143705.14430J-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199908182128.OAA22896@scv4.apple.com>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > I think Mac OS 8 will forget about the credentials. I don't > actually know much about how sharing works. > > But the current file sharing behaviour is not entirely useful to > think about, because it doesn't effect the local permissions (much), > and the local permission are what I'm worried about. Exported > filesystems are another story, and I don't want to compilcate things > too much by worrying about that right now. My thought here was more that this was the closest thing to prior art that MacOS has, and that that might be a good user experience to emulate. ;-) Probably the thing to do is either have options to the mount call which have the mounting user own everything, or to set up a umap which maps the desired user to root for access on the filesystem. Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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