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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:32:31 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>
Subject:   Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990818123231.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199908180255.UAA00507@harmony.village.org>

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On 18-Aug-99 Warner Losh wrote:
> : you can override the uid/gid on mount.. I assume you mean Joe uses
> : something like sudo so he can mount the disk..
>  Doesn't umapfs do that?

Yes.. half way through reading the mail I realised and didn't re-edit it..

IMHO being abe to override UID:GID's would be useful in a normal mount because
umapfs adds more complexity to work. (Though I can see that doing it in the
various FS's would suck royally)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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