Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!grdetil From: grdetil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gilles R. Detillieux) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Preserving file ownerships on OD? Keywords: userid, uid, OD, Optical, reassignment Message-ID: <1991Jun20.220525.5015@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 20 Jun 91 22:05:25 GMT Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 30 I have been reading this group for a while, but haven't seen this question addressed: Why does the NeXT reassign ownership of all files on an Optical Disk to the user ID of the person logged in? Can this be disabled? The Optical Disk drive on our NeXT is shared by many people on our network. (Now that the OD is no longer standard equipment on NeXT, I suspect that a lot of OD drives will be shared in similar ways at other sites.) We find it extremely annoying when one user is logged into the NeXT console (usually me), and another user wants to access or update one of his disks, logging in over the network. He inserts his disk, and then all of his files now belong to me; he can't even update his own disk because he doesn't have write permission on the directories. I usually have to stop what I'm doing, log out, and let the other person log in while he updates his disk, even if he is going to do it over the network. Am I the only NeXT user to think that this is a REALLY stupid "feature" in the NeXT's Optical Disk support? Under 1.0a, at least I could open a terminal window, do an "su", and change the ownerships back to their rightful owner. The change seemed to stick. Under 2.0, it doesn't stick - even while the disk it still mounted, the ownerships I set eventually turn back to the userid at the console. If anyone has found a way to defeat this annoying "feature", could you let me know? If NeXT is listening, how about a fix for this in the next release? -- Gilles Detillieux Spinal Cord Research Centre or Dept. of Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)788-6766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3 (Canada) Fax: (204)786-0932