Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.
On 9/7/13, Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:28:46PM +0400, recoverym4n@gmail.com wrote:
>> Take two different hosts, make user with the same name, but different
>> uids on those hosts.
>>
>> Take USB stick, format it as ext2 (any filesystem keeping file
>> permissions will do, actually).
>>
>> Now, move some files with this USB stick between hosts.
>>
>> This is exactly the situation that requires chown-after-mount unless
>> you have root on both hosts.
>
> Yes, you're right. In the past, I either mounted fat/vfat drives on
> different systems, or mounted an ext3 drive always on the same system,
> or had the same user with same uid on each system. That's why I hadn't
> run before into what you describe, which would require chown after
> each mount as you point out.
Which filesystem to recommend for external USB portable drives, which
move between 'random' hosts?
Perhaps fuseext2 would simplify this? I don't have experience with it yet.
The point is, a lot of us who would read this list, would be those who
are able and/ or do install Debian for others.
There should be an "easy for grandma" installation setup for the use
("by grandma") of externally attached/ portable drives.
Anyone know what The Right Way(TM)(R)(C) is?
Or should be with some scripting/ configuration?
Or could be with some hacking?
At the moment, the situation has been dissatisfactory (for grandma)
for years now, as see it.
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