Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

[Manuel Bouyer]

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.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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