Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 18-Aug-99 Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
>    Joe doesn't use the shell.  The Finder will do this for him; when  
>  you insert a floppy in Mac OS, it gets mounted and shows up on your  
>  desktop.  This is the case with all media.

Yes... Why is this a FreeBSD problem then? I would have thought it would be up
to MacOS to do the UID remapping (I must be missing something)

>  support that?  Are we mapping UID's to something meaningful?  How?   
>  Or is Joe a superuser for that volume?  Which volumes get treated  
>  this way, and how to you choose them?

If you want proper username mapping shouldn't you be using a distributed user
map (like NIS)?

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