From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 16: 6: 9 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 51BAB14F87 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:06:00 -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 QAA14746; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Studenmund To: Chris Dillon Cc: wsanchez@apple.com, 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: 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, Chris Dillon wrote: > I'm probably being extremely naive myself, but I just envisioned a > scenario like this (pardon me if someone else has already suggested > this): > > When a filesystem is mounted as foreign (HOW that is determined I > won't talk about), every file in the filesytem has its credentials > mapped to that of the mountpoint. File mode bits are not remapped in > any way. New files gain the credentials of their _foreign_ parent. > > That's the skinny. Now I'll give a (much longer) example to clarify. Sounds fine, except I'd have the owner & group passed in in the initial mount, rather than taken from "the mount point". :-) Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message