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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:30:48 -0700
From:      Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, pwd@apple.com, warner.c@apple.com, umeshv@apple.com
Subject:   Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
Message-ID:  <199908181630.JAA25969@scv1.apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908180508.WAA55082@scv4.apple.com>

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| >  when new media is available and it will try to mount it.  The  
present
| >  behaviour in Mac OS X Server is that everything mounted this  
way is
| >  trusted, though the Finder should be requesting nosetuid; I should   
| >  check that.  It's also possible that the kernel will number  
drives in
| >  a different order (eg. /dev/sd0a this boot might be /dev/sd1a next   
| >  boot), particularly if you are shuffling drives around. (Remember   
| >  that hot-swap complicates this.)  So a string like "/dev/sd0a" in   
| >  fstab is fragile, and it works out better if we keep that  
information
| >  on the mounted media rather than on the root volume.
|
| What happens with conflicting names?

  Append "_1", "_2", etc.

	-Fred


--
       Wilfredo Sanchez, wsanchez@apple.com
Apple Computer, Inc., Core Operating Systems / BSD
          Technical Lead, Darwin Project
   1 Infinite Loop, 302-4K, Cupertino, CA 95014



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