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From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:01:08
Message-Id: 20090316145953.2b3bff54@spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive by "»Q«"
1 On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500
2 »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
3
4 > The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the
5 > drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for
6 > user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A and user B are both
7 > me, but with different UIDs on the different machines.)
8
9 You could use ACL as has been suggested; you could also just set the
10 uids of the (same) user on these machines to the same thing.
11
12 Using the same uid across boxes is a really good idea if you have users
13 on each box anyway.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>