Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

[Narvi]

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.
> 



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