Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 15:23:50 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au> To: 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: <199908180523.PAA16220@mail.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com> from Wilfredo Sanchez at "Aug 17, 1999 7:17:45 pm"
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+----[ Wilfredo Sanchez ]--------------------------------------------- | A group of us at Apple are trying to figure out how to handle | situations where a filesystem with "foreign" user ID's are present. | The basic problem is that the user experience using Unix semantics | are not really pleasant. I think some examples would help: Why not simply translate unknown ids to the current user? I don't mean modifying the owners on disk. The real problem comes if a new user gets that unknown ID, but, you have this problem anyway where the user exists. I say "simply" as in concept, not as in work required :-) -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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