Magic UID

Posted May 17, 2012 19:33 UTC (Thu) by kh (guest, #19413)
In reply to: User and group mount options for ext filesystems by imunsie
Parent article: User and group mount options for ext filesystems

I am afraid this is probably terribly naive, but I wonder if it would not be better to have a magic UID - GID that when present, caused the VFS to ignore all permissions. Then the other part would be to create a way to format a disk so that when such a system was mounted, all new files would be created with the magic UID - GID. That way it would take a format action to create such a disk.