How about formatting your flash drive as FAT and use it everywhere without ACL mess?
=) Alternativly you might be able to achieve this with cunning DeviceKit / PolicyKit rules. I don't see how this can be useful as FUSE because it will be one more hurdle to jump. Also I don't understand how can you prove that this flash drive with this random UID is actually yours on a new machine? Surely that would still require root access to add yourself to your new FUSE config. On 11 May 2010 19:03, Tiago Espinha <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm a postgraduate student at the University of Leicester and the time has > come for me to do my thesis. This thesis can be in the format of a technical > project and one of the topics that has been proposed for my course has to do > with Linux. > > More concretely, the idea is that the student develops a FUSE file system > that maps that user's user ID across several terminals. The purpose of this > would be that if I have a USB stick formatted with ext4 and I copy files to > it at my Linux terminal at home, I would be able to access these files from > my terminal at work. > > As it is, according to this project's description (I'm no guru on this > matter), when we attempt to do what I've described, we won't have permissions > (unless the files are chmod'ed to 777) to read the files, set aside modify > them. Of course that as long as you are a super-user, you can always chown > them to your user in the local terminal and all is well. However, you would > have the same exact problem when returning to your other terminal. > > My question is: does the community agree that this would be feasible with a > FUSE file system AND that is this an actual feature with appeal and > usefulness to the community? Has this been requested a lot or not really? > > I have to make up my mind between this project and another one by tomorrow so > if anyone has an opinion or take on this, I'm all ears! > > Thanks in advance, > Tiago > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
