+----[ Wilfredo Sanchez ]---------------------------------------------
|   A group of us at Apple are trying to figure out how to handle  
| situations where a filesystem with "foreign" user ID's are present.   
| The basic problem is that the user experience using Unix semantics  
| are not really pleasant.  I think some examples would help:

Why not simply translate unknown ids to the current user? I don't mean
modifying the owners on disk. The real problem comes if a new user gets
that unknown ID, but, you have this problem anyway where the user exists.

I say "simply" as in concept, not as in work required :-)

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