SELinux enforcing, an external ntfs-3g mount, Samba and Fedora 8

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:36 +0000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> Craig White <craigwhite <at> azapple.com> writes:
> > I don't have an NTFS drive that I'm willing to connect up just for
> > experimentation 
> 
> NTFS support on Linux is fully self-contained just like ext3, XFS, FAT, JFS,
> etc, i.e. no need for an alian NTFS drive to do experiments:
> 
>  http://ntfs-3g.org/quality.html#howtotest
> 
> > Thus the concept of 'users' and 'mapping', though intriguing, would be
> > rather pointless for an NTFS filesystem mounted by ntfs-3g
> 
> Linux-Windows user/group mapping is possible by a file on the NTFS volume called
> UserMapping. NTFS ownership and permission support currently available as beta 
> with the full endorsement and support of the NTFS-3G project from 
> 
>  http://pagesperso-orange.fr/b.andre/security.html
> 
> Regards,
----
Szaka - extremely impressive, thanks for the clarity and the major
efforts.

Still, I'm not likely to use NTFS for durable storage on Linux but I
feel that I can confidently use ntfs instead of vfat for portable hard
drives instead of vfat.

User/Group mapping via a manually maintained file is not my idea of fun
but it has to begin somewhere.

Thanks

Craig