Narvi wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm the File Systems Tech Lead at Apple in the Mac OS X Core OS group. > > We've been struggling with the question of how best to handle permissions > > on disks that are moved between systems for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: > > the problem is that numeric IDs in inodes (or their moral equivalent) > > written on the filesystem on one system don't necessarily map to the same > > user, if they're valid at all, on another system (although they MIGHT). > > With ZIP drives holding appreciable volumes of data and multi-gigabyte > > FireWire drives becoming more common this is an issue that will > > definitely pop up more and more as people carry data with them on > > removable disk filesystems. > > > > [snip] > > Have you given consideration to systems where the user/group database is > kept for (possibly a large) number of computers in a centralised manner by > say hesiod or nys (nis+). It would be nice if there was an easy interface > with these so that distributing the local system id numbers need not be > done by hand. > > > -Patrick. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message If I was going to look into that kind of approach I would seriously look into some sort of Directory Server tie in through LDAP. Darren
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