Re: [9fans] group ownership for shared devices

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Tue Nov 10 08:25:22 EST 2009, ze.brandao@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry for my ignorance, but is this not what importfs is for ?

what is importfs?

if you mean exportfs, it's not going to do what lyndon wants
you can import devices as a normal user

	; import -E ssl minooka.coraid.com '#æ' /n/mæ

but that doesn't change the system's idea of who you are

	; cd /n/mæ/aoe && ls -l
	--rw-r--r-- M 71124 bootes bootes 0 Oct 28 12:26 ctl
	--r--r--r-- M 71124 bootes bootes 0 Oct 28 12:26 log
	; echo bind '#l1/ether1' > ctl
	ctl: rc: can't open: 'ctl' './aoe/ctl' permission denied

you can import as another user, say bootes.  but in order to
do that, every member of the group has to have bootes'
password.  but if that were the case, lyndon's users could just
cpu in as bootes.

- erik