On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe wrote: > >> Things like compression or encription should be used at the "volume" >> level. So.. if a user wants a specific set of files or dirs ..they should >> create a mount-point/volume like: >> >> private_vol >> bigarchives_vol > > Does a normal user have permissions to do this? > > I could easily see the case where a normal user has a set of very > compressible files in a directory. They shouldn't have to get a sysadmin go > to the trouble of setting this up. > that's a policy decision. Distro's will probably allow a admin/wheel user to do such things. Big deployments, shell servers, or university setups, will all have a policy decision and usualy hack up costumised tools for managing users quota, settings, passwds and things like that. A costumised useradd would probably create such volumes for each user, for instance, and a costumised passwd, would reencript stored data with new passwd. (or something similar...)... I know I did similar things when was a university sysadm, pam_useradd and pam_mountd were heavily used and costumised. Kind regards, -- Miguel Sousa Filipe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
