I have Wine application directories that I need to share read-only
with several users. Separate directories are used for each
application as they have different Wine configuration requirements
(and to avoid DLL hell with native libs). The users need to be able
to save their changes independently
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM, wrote:
> While I think it may be possible to implement such feature in aure, aufs
> should not do it. Because it is a different kind of feature. I think it
> is better to wrap the ro branch by fuse or cifs as you are doing.
> If I were you, I'd suggest user to run
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Jeff Hanson wrote:
>
> Users can't run chown because they are not root.
>
Another problem is that the CIFS mounts show up in Gnome/Nautilus as
mounted volumes. Since these are ro mounts that only exist for the
UID change they aren't useful t
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:58 PM, wrote:
>
> How about writing a wrapper?
> Allow chown after some tests.
> - the target path is aufs, or /home/$USER in your case?
> - the target uid is $USER
> - etc
> The warpper may be implemented suid-ed, or customized /etc/sudoers.
>
I can do that easily and i
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:44 AM, wrote:
> Users have their own rw branch individually, don't they?
> chwon makes the file copied-up in aufs. So it never affect other users.
>
Tried that. The result is that the rw branch ends up with the entire
data of the ro branch. It seems that aufs copies th
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> That is a property of "inode file systems" - only one location for ownership.
> Symbolic link chain at the directory name level -
> Hard links are many names-to-single inode - with one location for ownership.
>
> There are file systems (on n
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:34 PM, wrote:
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> What did you chown?
The aufs mount point. That is what the users will be working with.
They could access the rw branch directly since it is in their home but
that is unlikely since it is hidden.
> My asummption is
> - you have all common files in the
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:34 AM, wrote:
>
> Jeff Hanson:
>> The aufs mount point. That is what the users will be working with.
>
> Do you mean only the directory?
> If so, aufs does copyup the dir only, and I don't think it fills up the
> rw branch.
>
mount -v -
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM, wrote:
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> Jeff Hanson:
>> chown -R administrator:administrator /home/administrator/.wine-Diablo_II
>
> Because you add -R, chown handles all of the specified dir, the files
> and the sub-dirs under it recursively and unconditionally. But wha
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:06 AM, wrote:
>> find /srv/wine/wine-Diablo_II -type d -exec chmod ugo+rwX '{}' \;
>> find /srv/wine/wine-Diablo_II -type f -exec chmod ugo+rwX '{}' \;
>
> I'd suggest you to do it carefully.
> - giving unnecessary permission bits can be a problem for security.
> - As yo
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