Thanks for the reply James
Bill to avoid confusion (for your own benefit, not 'cause you need to do this)
* ensure uid and gid for bill is the same on both machines
umm, I would sudo su
vi /etc/passwd
vi /etc/group
(but be consistant, if you change either, fix every file
eg /home/bill /var/spool/mail/bill etc etc)
Not quite sure what you mean by above. Sorry for my ignorance.
* Now set owner of the files needed to bill
chown -R bill.bill /media/place1
as appropriate
No problem with chown.
This will always prevail unless the partitions are mounted read-only or
immutable flag is set (or the filesystem is damaged, or funny eg ntfs, ..)
chattr -R -i /media/place1
as appropriate.
R.M <with apologies, :-)> chown, chattr.
This illustrates the negative side of private groups. EG I use group users for
things like media, g+w and all legal users (readers/writers) of media in
group users too. Invent a scenario that works for you.
As I'm the only person using my LAN/PC's I just naturally chose my user
name when Group ID was needed. Can see the obvious sense in using Group
"users" when there are multiple system users.
James
Seem to have stuffed up prior to receiving your reply.
Am getting "su returned with an error" when trying to use "su" on
Kubuntu. Think that during previous attempt at using "chown" I must have
forgotten to cd to the desired drive and "chowned" everything in the
installation :( as a peek at /etc/sudoers shows it beeing owned by uid
1000 instead of 0. :(
Oh well, installation restore may be necessary.
Thanks
Bill
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