[8506] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: special devices support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr A V Le Blanc)
Wed Feb 21 00:50:08 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 05:39:59 +0000
From: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
To: info-afs@transarc.com
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Reply-To: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
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In-Reply-To: <F349BC4F5799D411ACE100D0B706B3BB34260C@umr-mail03.cc.umr.edu>; from nneul@umr.edu on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:43:01PM -0600
On Friday, February 16, 2001 at 6:40 PM, Patty OReilly
<oreilly@qualcomm.com> wrote:
> Is is possible to create special devices in AFS space?
> This is need for chroot'd environments.
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:43:01PM -0600, Neulinger, Nathan R. wrote:
> Not currently. It's a pretty scary thought regardless.
>
> My guess is it wouldn't be hard to implement, but would have to be treated
> like setuid - only admin could create them, and you'd have to have a
> SuidCells equivalent for device support.
Or you can do what I do: mount a local disk on a point in AFS space,
and have the devices on the local disk. Of course, if you have
a dozen chrooted environments, this could be awkward. But it works
for one.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
