Subject: Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
To: Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>
From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/18/1999 14:47:36
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On 18-Aug-99 Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
>  when new media is available and it will try to mount it.  The present  
>  behaviour in Mac OS X Server is that everything mounted this way is  
>  trusted, though the Finder should be requesting nosetuid; I should  
>  check that.  It's also possible that the kernel will number drives in  
>  a different order (eg. /dev/sd0a this boot might be /dev/sd1a next  
>  boot), particularly if you are shuffling drives around. (Remember  
>  that hot-swap complicates this.)  So a string like "/dev/sd0a" in  
>  fstab is fragile, and it works out better if we keep that information  
>  on the mounted media rather than on the root volume.

You could wire all the disks down.. :)

What happens with conflicting names?

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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