Subject: Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
From: Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/18/1999 09:30:48
| >  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.
|
| What happens with conflicting names?

  Append "_1", "_2", etc.

	-Fred


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