On Feb 3, 12:23 pm, "Chris Cleeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is driving the OP's need for root access to a FUSE filesystem? I don't know the OP's need, but there can be plenty of reasons for root access to a MacFUSE file system. If any system daemon or component running as root (Spotlight is a canonical example) wants to access a MacFUSE volume, you'll need to explicitly turn off MacFUSE's blanket denial. > Is it possible to do something with FUSE similar to what NFS does with > 'root'--translation to a different UID? Of course, but lets not mix the issues at hand--the issue I was talking about is allowing a process running as root access to a MacFUSE volume. I was *not* talking about root access so that root owned files on the file system can be accessed. Besides, there's no need to reinvent the wheel--it's already been reinvented. The file system itself can do whatever it pleases and advertise any UIDs it wants. sshfs already translates remote UIDs and GIDs to that of the local user. You can also use the 'defer_permissions' MacFUSE option, which will stop the Mac OS X kernel from doing any permission checks itself, and will simply let through all operations to the user-space file system (which can still disallow operations if it so chooses). Amit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "macfuse-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
