Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: wsanchez@apple.com, 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: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990818160424.14430M-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908181527040.57884-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Chris Dillon wrote: > I'm probably being extremely naive myself, but I just envisioned a > scenario like this (pardon me if someone else has already suggested > this): > > When a filesystem is mounted as foreign (HOW that is determined I > won't talk about), every file in the filesytem has its credentials > mapped to that of the mountpoint. File mode bits are not remapped in > any way. New files gain the credentials of their _foreign_ parent. > > That's the skinny. Now I'll give a (much longer) example to clarify. Sounds fine, except I'd have the owner & group passed in in the initial mount, rather than taken from "the mount point". :-) Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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