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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: For the AdaOS folks
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:39:40 +0100
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:57:39 -0500, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>>>Not a problem. I can determine who accesses the floppy
>>>when it is mounted (look up the mount command).
>> 
>> Yes, but once mounted it is accessible for all. Actually it is the file
>> system with its access rights to the files, that makes access safe, not
>> only the mount command.
> 
> You didn't do your homework on this one:
> 
> Mount options for fat
> 
>    uid=value and gid=value
>      Set the owner and group of all files. (Default: the uid
>      and gid of the current process.)

Huh, these options are provided for a FAT FS. The reason is clear MS-DOS
never was a proper multi-user OS. Use a normal FS! (I think under Linux we
could define FS "normal" if that has no uid/gid options in mount. (:-))

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de