Thoughts on ownership and permissions
Mike Hobbs <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:19:00 +0000
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On RISC OS I can have multiple NFS client sessions, each of which has different uid and gid (and various other params) so that when I copy/move files between the Filer windows, the ownership is changed to that of the uid and gid of the owner NFS session. This is really useful when working with multiple NFS servers and different user ids and avoids me forgetting to change the ownership and permissions manually. I use the SunFish NFS client (and have used other clients in the past). Could ROX be made to handle this kind of thing (fairly easily)? I suppose people will argue that its not the responsibility of ROX Filer to manage uid and gid and NFS things, but in the same way I can use ROX Filer as 'root' or my personal id, it would be nice to have different Filer windows with different user ids. To illustrate the requirement, suppose you compile a program on your personal machine and want to copy it to a server so that its accessible by many people and owned by a generic user like "qatest". When you open /mnt/qatest (and ROX auto mounts it with -t nfs option) the file operations assume the ownership of the user who opened the file viewer. So when the new executable is dragged to thie file viewer, it acquires the ownnership of the user, whereas what was required is the file to be owned by the generic user "qatest". Any ideas? -- Mike Hobbs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev