Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-25 Thread Manuel Bouyer
oot a netbsd floppy to recover data from other partitions (which didn't have errors :) -- 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

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-25 Thread Manuel Bouyer
oot a netbsd floppy to recover data from other partitions (which didn't have errors :) -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Manuel Bouyer
p, and it's not necesserely a good thing to let a server operate without all it's filesystems. On my shell server, if /var gets corrupted, I'm sure I prefer to get a panic instead of letting it run without accounting. -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. manuel.

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Manuel Bouyer
> 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 thi

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Manuel Bouyer
, I don't think changing the panic() to return(appropriate_error_code) is the rigth thing to do, in some case you want to panic if a filesystem gets corrupted. This could probably be switched on/off for root/non-root mounts. Also I think there are some cases where it's too late to recov

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Manuel Bouyer
p, and it's not necesserely a good thing to let a server operate without all it's filesystems. On my shell server, if /var gets corrupted, I'm sure I prefer to get a panic instead of letting it run without accounting. -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. [EM

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Manuel Bouyer
, they need to have access to the block devices. For "loopback" mounts (null, union, umap, ...), we have to be more carefull about restrictions. Maybe NFS is an issue too ... -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. manuel.bou...@lip6.fr -- To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Manuel Bouyer
> 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 thi

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Manuel Bouyer
, I don't think changing the panic() to return(appropriate_error_code) is the rigth thing to do, in some case you want to panic if a filesystem gets corrupted. This could probably be switched on/off for root/non-root mounts. Also I think there are some cases where it's too late to recov

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-24 Thread Manuel Bouyer
thing, they need to have access to the block devices. For "loopback" mounts (null, union, umap, ...), we have to be more carefull about restrictions. Maybe NFS is an issue too ... -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL