Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 13:04:17 -0600 From: "Darren R. Davis" <drdavis@calderasystems.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Pat Dirks <pwd@apple.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems Message-ID: <37FB9D31.A18617F4@calderasystems.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006172655.37031M-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C4BCBF28B5B8D71A215DBEBD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Narvi wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm the File Systems Tech Lead at Apple in the Mac OS X Core OS group. > > We've been struggling with the question of how best to handle permissions > > on disks that are moved between systems for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: > > the problem is that numeric IDs in inodes (or their moral equivalent) > > written on the filesystem on one system don't necessarily map to the same > > user, if they're valid at all, on another system (although they MIGHT). > > With ZIP drives holding appreciable volumes of data and multi-gigabyte > > FireWire drives becoming more common this is an issue that will > > definitely pop up more and more as people carry data with them on > > removable disk filesystems. > > > > [snip] > > Have you given consideration to systems where the user/group database is > kept for (possibly a large) number of computers in a centralised manner by > say hesiod or nys (nis+). It would be nice if there was an easy interface > with these so that distributing the local system id numbers need not be > done by hand. > > > -Patrick. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message If I was going to look into that kind of approach I would seriously look into some sort of Directory Server tie in through LDAP. Darren --------------C4BCBF28B5B8D71A215DBEBD Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="drdavis.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Darren R. Davis Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="drdavis.vcf" begin:vcard n:Davis;Darren tel;fax:801.765.1313 tel;work:801.765.4999 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.calderasystems.com org:Caldera Systems, Inc.;Engineering adr:;;240 West Center Street;Orem;UT;84057;USA version:2.1 email;internet:drdavis@calderasystems.com title:Director of Research x-mozilla-cpt:;-5088 fn:Darren Davis end:vcard --------------C4BCBF28B5B8D71A215DBEBD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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