Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread David Christensen
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
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'

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
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! -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-10 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-10 Thread Richard Owlett
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Thank you - was [Re: Permission issue]

2013-11-09 Thread Richard Owlett
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-08 Thread David Christensen
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

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-08 Thread Siard
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