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.bou...@lip6.fr -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
