On mer, 2014-03-19 at 10:00 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote: > It was <2014-03-17 pon 17:47>, when José Bollo wrote: > [...] > > page 6 > > ====== > > > > See above (page 3) for putting smack data to user's home directory. > > > > User specific data must be created within its home directory by > > applications and libraries. The best place to use are > > $HOME/.config/... and $HOME/share/... > > > > By principle, daemon should not have specific user data. For the small > > account of daemons that should have user data (media manager, > > playlist, ...) we agree that it is the responsibility of the daemon to > > deal with user add and remove. > > > > For external memory cards, we are thinking that the use of links in > > the home directories is needed for applying quotas (see below page > > 7). > > How would symbolic links help in enforcing quotas (see below)? > > > Mounting memory cards would imply the creation/synchronisation of > > the links and of the data on the card. For example: on the card, > > should exists the directories: > > > > - /home/user1...usern > > - /opt/... > > > > and the main FS would have the links: > > > > - /home/user1/sdcard -> /mount/sdcard/home/user1 > > - /opt/sdcard -> /mount/sdcard/opt > > > > That is our draft idea. > > For the record. Today Udisks2 mounts removable media under > /run/media/<user>/<dir> > > Where <user> is username (or uid?) of the user who requested to mount a > volume. <dir> is a label the filesystem or its UUID if label is > absent. By default udisks sets permission bits on dir to 700. In this > configuration sharing data on a card between users isn't > straightforward. Please keep in mind that in general security on > removable media is a complicated matter since most (?) of them still use > FAT and if they don't they become somewhat less portable.
Agreed. It is complicated. > > > > page 7 > > ====== > > > > Limiting user storage can be made with a quota > > like mechanism that implies that any user data > > must be within its home directory. > > It depends on filesystem layout. Quotas apply to a filesystem not a > subtree. > > My 0,02 €. Surely more than 0.02€! You are right. Best regards José > > Kind regards, _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev
