On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:00:44AM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> >>So as administrator what do I need to do to set
> >>/export/home up for users to be able to create their own
> >>snapshots, create dependent filesystems (but still mounted
> >>underneath their /export/home/usrname)?
> >>
> >>In other words, is there a way to specify the rights of the
> >>owner of a filesystem rather than the individual - eg, delayed
> >>evaluation of the owner?
> >
> >I think you're asking for the -c "Creator" flag. This allows
> >permissions (eg, to take snapshots) to be granted to whoever creates the
> >filesystem. The above example shows how this might be done.
> >
> >--matt
>
> Actually, I think I mean owner.
>
> I want root to create a new filesystem for a new user under
> the /export/home filesystem, but then have that user get the
> right privs via inheritance rather than requiring root to run
> a set of zfs commands.
In that case, how should the system determine who the "owner" is? We
toyed with the idea of figuring out the user based on the last component
of the filesystem name, but that seemed too tricky, at least for the
first version.
FYI, here is how you can do it with an additional zfs command:
# zfs create tank/home/barts
# zfs allow barts create,snapshot,... tank/home/barts
--matt
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