Re: OT: Permission issue

2013-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Re: OT: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: OT: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: OT: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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'