On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 16:57 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> FreeBSD seems to be slightly more complicated by having a binary form
> of the /etc/passwd file that must be compiled after changes to it are
> made. (I didn't know that.) That binary compilation step seems to
> have added confusion there. N
On 11/11/2013 03:57 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
But nothing there gives me any indication that the strategy of using
the same uids everywhere is not the best strategy.
Centralized user authentication is what YP, NIS, LDAP, Kerberos, Active
Directory, etc. for private networks and OpenID, Google Acco
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > find / -xdev -user 1000 -exec chown 1001 {} +
> > find / -xdev -group 1000 -exec chgrp 1001 {} +
>
> "Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD":
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/subject.html#start
That is
PS:
> > find / -xdev -user 1000 -exec chown 1001 {} +
> > find / -xdev -group 1000 -exec chgrp 1001 {} +
>
> "Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD":
I guess "Fwd: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD"
can be skipped, the "next message" option doesn'
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 13:11 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> find / -xdev -user 1000 -exec chown 1001 {} +
> find / -xdev -group 1000 -exec chgrp 1001 {} +
"Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD":
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/subject.html#start
It's n
David Christensen wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > It's possible, I once changed the uid for a user from 1001 to 1000 and
> > preferences for all files using find for a FreeBSD install. I had bad
> > luck and something strange happened, I can't remember the issue, but it
> > was much work to change
On 11/11/2013 07:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
It's possible, I once changed the uid for a user from 1001 to 1000 and
preferences for all files using find for a FreeBSD install. I had bad
luck and something strange happened, I can't remember the issue, but it
was much work to change really the real
On 11/11/2013 01:19 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Yes, but in this case the name should change from spinymouse used for my
old installs of the last years, to rocketmouse for the first user. The
first user always gets the uid 1000 to keep all my systems compatible,
even FreeBSD that IIRC by default does
On 11/11/2013 06:18 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:24:39PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/10/2013 10:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
[...]
+1
-1000!
Why?
David
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:12:31PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 03:18 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:24:39PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > > On 11/10/2013 10:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > +1
> >
> > -1000!
>
> :D
>
> It'
On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 03:18 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:24:39PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 11/10/2013 10:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > +1
>
> -1000!
:D
It's possible, I once changed the uid for a user from 1001 to 1000 and
preferences for al
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:24:39PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> On 11/10/2013 10:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
[...]
>
> +1
-1000!
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On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 23:26 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Not if you synchronize the uids. Pick one to be 1000. Move the other
> one to 1001. Then then will be different. Then both systems will
> have the same list of users and uids.
Yes, but in this case the name should change from spinymouse us
On 11/10/2013 10:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
That is the entire point of why I suggested synchronizing the uid
numbers between the systems! Have exactly one uid per name. No more.
No less. One only. Two users with the same uid is right out! :-)
It is a little bit of work to edit the files to syn
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > > If the user has the same uid:gid then they will all have sane access.
> > >
> > > Yes, but it should be mentioned that for sharing some paths by a
> > > multi-boot, uid and name of the user must fit, if
Hi Bob,
On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 12:24 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > If the user has the same uid:gid then they will all have sane access.
> >
> > Yes, but it should be mentioned that for sharing some paths by a
> > multi-boot, uid and name of the user mu
Bob Proulx wrote:
Siard wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
My dual boots Squeeze and Wheezy.
I've created a partition whose function in life is to be
essentially a scratch pad for all groups/users of both.
How do I force all files to be written to that partition to be
readable AND writable to everybo
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > If the user has the same uid:gid then they will all have sane access.
>
> Yes, but it should be mentioned that for sharing some paths by a
> multi-boot, uid and name of the user must fit, if you want to avoid
> links.
I am sorry but I do not understand
On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 11:39 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> If the user has the same uid:gid then they will all have sane access.
Yes, but it should be mentioned that for sharing some paths by a
multi-boot, uid and name of the user must fit, if you want to avoid
links.
$ ls -hAl /home /mnt/q/home
/hom
Richard Owlett wrote:
> My dual boots Squeeze and Wheezy.
> I've created a partition whose function in life is to be essentially
> a scratch pad for all groups/users of both.
> How do I force all files to be written to that partition to be
> readable AND writable to everybody?
You are creating a m
Siard wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > My dual boots Squeeze and Wheezy.
> > I've created a partition whose function in life is to be
> > essentially a scratch pad for all groups/users of both.
> > How do I force all files to be written to that partition to be
> > readable AND writable to every
Richard Owlett wrote:
My dual boots Squeeze and Wheezy.
I've created a partition whose function in life is to be
essentially a scratch pad for all groups/users of both.
How do I force all files to be written to that partition to be
readable AND writable to everybody?
Thank you Siard and David
On 11/08/2013 08:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
My dual boots Squeeze and Wheezy.
I've created a partition whose function in life is to be essentially a
scratch pad for all groups/users of both.
How do I force all files to be written to that partition to be readable
AND writable to everybody?
Thi
Richard Owlett wrote:
> My dual boots Squeeze and Wheezy.
> I've created a partition whose function in life is to be
> essentially a scratch pad for all groups/users of both.
> How do I force all files to be written to that partition to be
> readable AND writable to everybody?
By putting a line
My dual boots Squeeze and Wheezy.
I've created a partition whose function in life is to be
essentially a scratch pad for all groups/users of both.
How do I force all files to be written to that partition to be
readable AND writable to everybody?
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On Monday 30 September 2013 17:58:19 Catherine Gramze wrote:
> I suppose now somebody will remind us of the off-topic list and
> suggest we take it there.
;-)
Lisi
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On Monday 30 September 2013 16:38:04 Frank McCormick wrote:
> Not compared with me :) I suspect I beat you both. Born in 1941.
:-)
As I said, there are plenty who are older than I am - it isn't a
competition! But I still maintain that 60+ is not very old. ;-)
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On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Richard seems to need to believe himself to be extremely unusually old
>> for the list and to have used computers for far longer than anyone
>> else.
>>
>> He is younger than I am, and I am by no means the oldest on this list;
>> so he is
On 30/09/13 11:30 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Richard seems to need to believe himself to be extremely unusually old
for the list and to have used computers for far longer than anyone
else.
He is younger than I am, and I am by no means the oldest on this list;
so he is probably younger than you are!
On Monday 30 September 2013 15:48:35 Catherine Gramze wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Richard Owlett
wrote:
> > Suspect indicator that you are decades younger than I. But I've
> > been wrong before.
>
> I suspect not, unless you are an octogenarian at minimum. This
> seems unlikely, so my
On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Suspect indicator that you are decades younger than I. But I've been wrong
> before.
I suspect not, unless you are an octogenarian at minimum. This seems unlikely,
so
my best guess is that we are roughly the same age, with a distinct poss
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 9:49 AM, wrote:
> From: Joel Rees
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:05:33 +0900
>> ... make all the users that write to it [a folder] members of the group.
>
> If you don't object to the question, would those users tend to be
> people or projects or tasks?
Good question!
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 09:05 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
In the meantime, synaptic and others essentially go through su or sudo
and pop up a dialog asking for your root or admin password.
Resp. those commands are gksu, gksudo, kdesu.
Thank you for solution to immediate proble
On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 09:05 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> In the meantime, synaptic and others essentially go through su or sudo
> and pop up a dialog asking for your root or admin password.
Resp. those commands are gksu, gksudo, kdesu.
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> ... make all the users that write to it [a folder] members of the group.
If you don't object to the question, would those users tend to be
people or projects or tasks?
Thanks,... Peter E.
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pected. Clicking on it opened a file
> browser. Clicking in the empty area displayed a menu including "Create
> Folder". T'was greyed out :{ As I had no problem creating a folder on the
> "Desktop" I concluded "permission issue".
Yeah ...
> Google
"Create Folder". T'was greyed out :{ As I had no
problem creating a folder on the "Desktop" I concluded
"permission issue".
Google was unsatisfactory, links discussed "why &/or what" not "how".
I suspect that if I followed links from
htt
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:56:25 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
> Imagination does not honor any restriction, and something similar has
> come in my mind.
Imagination is the best human being's resource :-)
> Can we have any folder with customized permission level, so that,
> whenever we create/move any fil
Hello list,
Imagination does not honor any restriction, and something similar has come in
my mind.
Can we have any folder with customized permission level, so that, whenever we
create/move
any files/folders with in that folder, those automatically get a predefined
permission level ?
Say we m
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On 03/02/12 12:26, J. Bakshi wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Imagination does not honor any restriction, and something similar has come in
> my mind.
>
> Can we have any folder with customized permission level, so that, whenever we
> create/move
> any f
Hello list,
Imagination does not honor any restriction, and something similar has come in
my mind.
Can we have any folder with customized permission level, so that, whenever we
create/move
any files/folders with in that folder, those automatically get a predefined
permission level ?
Say we mo
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:14:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Simon wrote:
> > OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
> > the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
> >
> > I think the term is "DOH!".
> >
> > Is there any way to fix these?
>
> Personally I
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:17:24AM +, s. keeling wrote:
> Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
>
> By "/root/", do you mean root's $HOME ("~root"), or do you mean root
> of the filesystem, "/"?
That shouldn't matter: The parent
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:14:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Simon wrote:
> > OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
> > the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
> >
> > I think the term is "DOH!".
> >
> > Is there any way to fix these?
>
> Personally I
Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
By "/root/", do you mean root's $HOME ("~root"), or do you mean root
of the filesystem, "/"?
> the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
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Simon wrote:
> OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
> the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
>
> I think the term is "DOH!".
>
> Is there any way to fix these?
Personally I would install a chroot on my system, install in the
chroot all of the package
Simon wrote:
OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
I think the term is "DOH!".
Is there any way to fix these?
Ouch! Ah the power of root, always ready to screw you. If you don't have
many custom configs, I'd
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:24:06AM +1200, Simon wrote:
> OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
> the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
>
> I think the term is "DOH!".
heh heh. That's pretty good.
SO I don't think this all too much of a problem. Most
OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
I think the term is "DOH!".
Is there any way to fix these?
Simon
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>> To be honest I must not really understand permission
>> the application appletviewer, which comes with a jdk is really a symlink to
a file
>> called
>> .java_wrapper
>> # ls -l .java_wrapper
.java_wrapper is a shell script. setuid or setgid on a shell script may or
may not work depending
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Chip Grandits wrote:
> A.P. Bell wrote:
>
> > Don't know much about Java. You should temporarily change the permissions
> > on
> > /dev/audio and /dev/dsp to 666 and run your applet -- to ensure that your
> > setuid
> > trick has worked. Also, a method such as play() is l
A.P. Bell wrote:
> Don't know much about Java. You should temporarily change the permissions on
> /dev/audio and /dev/dsp to 666 and run your applet -- to ensure that your
> setuid
> trick has worked. Also, a method such as play() is likely overriden and so an
> alternative method like play(,..
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