Subject: Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/18/1999 12:32:31
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On 18-Aug-99 Warner Losh wrote:
> : you can override the uid/gid on mount.. I assume you mean Joe uses
> : something like sudo so he can mount the disk..
>  Doesn't umapfs do that?

Yes.. half way through reading the mail I realised and didn't re-edit it..

IMHO being abe to override UID:GID's would be useful in a normal mount because
umapfs adds more complexity to work. (Though I can see that doing it in the
various FS's would suck royally)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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