Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 18:18:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hiren@tagore.wipinfo.soft.net Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User creds for MSDOSFS Message-ID: <199806051818.LAA15966@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <9806051459.AA26054@tagore.wipinfo.soft.net> from "hiren@tagore.wipinfo.soft.net" at Jun 5, 98 01:11:56 pm
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> Can somebody explain how user credentials are handled in case of MSDOSFS ? > who all are allowed to access/modify files/directory once file system of > type MSDOSFS is mounted ? All files are assumed to have the same user and group ownership, and permissions, that were specified at mount time via the -u, -g, and -m options, respectively. Udo Walter (sp?) created in Linux an FS called "UMSDOSFS", which supports full UNIX semantics on files using a seperate "poop file" named "-LINUX--.---" (better would have been "-UMSDOS-.--"; it's more symmetric, and it's not system-dependent). You could do a similar thing in FreeBSD, if the FS stacking issues were resolved, or if you wanted to modify the MS-DOS FS code (ie: make it a non-stacked monolithic implementation). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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