On Friday 10 June 2005 22:14, Karl Chen wrote: > >>>>> On 2005-06-10 09:03 PDT, Blaisorblade writes: > >> Hostfs seems to make everything owned by root -- even files > >> created by non-root users. > > Blaisorblade> So you are running uml as root? > > Blaisorblade> Or you are running UML as non-root but with > Blaisorblade> hostfs as root filesystem? > > I'm running uml as non-root (that's part of the reason for using > UML, so I can do everything as non-root), and not using hostfs as > the root file system. I just need to share one directory tree, > and some processes inside the uml need to run as non-root. Ok, in this case there's probably a simpler road: simply use a 2.4.27-1bs kernel. The implemented behaviour is that all created files will have the ID they have on the host, i.e. the ID of the user running UML. > Blaisorblade> 1) HUMFS, implementing the ideal behaviour below > > Humfs looks promising; I'm investigating - thanks.
> >> I would be happy if there were uid and gid mount options as > >> many other fs types have -- to treat all files in the > >> entire mount as owned by a particular user/group. > > Blaisorblade> Well, I'm going to add those options to UML 2.6 > Blaisorblade> but I'll be able to work on this only next > Blaisorblade> week... However this should not be too much > Blaisorblade> work. > > Great! Thanks! Let me know if I can help with anything. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
