UID mapping filesystem

2010-05-11 Thread Tiago Espinha
Dear all, I'm a postgraduate student at the University of Leicester and the time has come for me to do my thesis. This thesis can be in the format of a technical project and one of the topics that has been proposed for my course has to do with Linux. More concretely, the idea is that the

Re: UID mapping filesystem

2010-05-11 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
How about formatting your flash drive as FAT and use it everywhere without ACL mess? =) Alternativly you might be able to achieve this with cunning DeviceKit / PolicyKit rules. I don't see how this can be useful as FUSE because it will be one more hurdle to jump. Also I don't understand how

Re: UID mapping filesystem

2010-05-11 Thread John Moser
The last concern is important. The drive is not fixed; all security on removable media is broken On May 11, 2010 2:22 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote: How about formatting your flash drive as FAT and use it everywhere without ACL mess? =) Alternativly you might be able to

Re: UID mapping filesystem

2010-05-11 Thread Phillip Susi
I don't see what FUSE would have to do with anything. The UDF filesystem has the ability to not store the uid on the media, instead writing a uid of -1, which it then can map to the currently logged in interactive user that mounted the disc later. This feature was created specifically to solve