From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 14:49:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from marcy.nas.nasa.gov (marcy.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.113.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6FBD1547E for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:49:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wrstuden@marcy.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (wrstuden@localhost) by marcy.nas.nasa.gov (8.9.3/NAS8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA13679; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:48:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Studenmund To: Wilfredo Sanchez 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 In-Reply-To: <199908182128.OAA22896@scv4.apple.com> 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 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