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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:54:45
Message-Id: 20160902015415.49e620cb@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery by Neil Bothwick
1 Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 23:02:17 +0100
2 schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
3
4 > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 23:50:17 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote:
5 >
6 > [...]
7 > > >
8 > > > That's not true. Whoever owns the files and directories will be
9 > > > able to access then, even if root mounted the stick, just like a
10 > > > hard drive. If you have the same UID on all your systems, chown -R
11 > > > youruser: /mount/point will make everything available on all
12 > > > systems.
13 > >
14 > > As long as uids match...
15 >
16 > That's what I said, whoever owns the files. As far as Linux is
17 > concerned, the UID is the person, usernames are just a convenience
18 > mapping to make life simpler for the wetware.
19
20 Oh yes, I was confused... ;-)
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22 After I hit reply, my eyes stopped at "owns the file" and continued at
23 "chown -R youruser". So if others were confused, too: Now they
24 shouldn't.
25
26 --
27 Regards,
28 Kai
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30 Replies to list-only preferred.