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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Preserving file ownerships on OD?
Keywords: userid, uid, OD, Optical, reassignment
Message-ID: <1768@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 21 Jun 91 09:11:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.220525.5015@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun20.220525.5015@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
	grdetil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gilles R. Detillieux) writes:
>Am I the only NeXT user to think that this is a REALLY stupid "feature" in
>the NeXT's Optical Disk support?

It's not just in OD support.  It's in all mountable media EVEN IF
automount=no is set in the disk label.

Funny you should mention this as the "virus" discussion is
happening; this is one of the biggest weaknesses introduced in
2.x--it totally blows away normal UNIX file protections.

I was really shocked when it did this with one of my Fujitsus.
If you don't mount all your disks through fstab, watch out!

					-=EPS=-