From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 6:14:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from antioche.lip6.fr (antioche.lip6.fr [132.227.74.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020E114CA5 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 06:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr) Received: from antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr (antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr [132.227.72.132]) by antioche.lip6.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA12806; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:12:54 +0200 (MEST) Received: (bouyer@localhost) by antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr (8.8.8/8.6.4) id PAA04141; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:12:53 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:12:53 +0200 From: Manuel Bouyer To: Wilfredo Sanchez 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: <19990824151253.A4089@antioche.lip6.fr> References: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6us In-Reply-To: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com>; from Wilfredo Sanchez on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:17:45PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:17:45PM -0700, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > [...] > > I think the desired behaviour would be that since this is > effectively now Joe's zip disk, he should be able to do as he > pleases. One proposal might be to give the console user the > equivalent of root's priveledges on any removeable media he inserts > into the machine while he's logged in on the console. This solves > the immediate problem of permissions for Joe, since the file owners > are, on his machine and in this situation, largely irrelevant. > Presumably the console user is the one fiddling with the external > media. > What I would do here is give root privileges to the user who mounted the filesystem, for this filesystem. As in 4.4BSD non-root users can mount media if they have access to the block device, I think this would solve this problem. -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message