Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:12:53 +0200 From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> To: Wilfredo Sanchez <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: <19990824151253.A4089@antioche.lip6.fr> In-Reply-To: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com>; from Wilfredo Sanchez on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:17:45PM -0700 References: <199908180217.TAA03970@scv1.apple.com>
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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
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