On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > I think Mac OS 8 will forget about the credentials. I don't > actually know much about how sharing works. > > But the current file sharing behaviour is not entirely useful to > think about, because it doesn't effect the local permissions (much), > and the local permission are what I'm worried about. Exported > filesystems are another story, and I don't want to compilcate things > too much by worrying about that right now.
My thought here was more that this was the closest thing to prior art that MacOS has, and that that might be a good user experience to emulate. ;-) Probably the thing to do is either have options to the mount call which have the mounting user own everything, or to set up a umap which maps the desired user to root for access on the filesystem. Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
