[Eug-lug] OpenOffice Document - Linux <---> Mac OS X file exchange Heads Up

[Dwight Hubbard]

Unless you reformatted the flash drive, very likely the filesystem was fat
or vfat and the files did not contain any ownership or permissions because
the filesystem does not support it.

When a fat/vfat filesystem is mounted on Linux it normally defaults the
ownership to root unless different uid/gid is specified in the mount
command...

On 7/31/06, T. Joseph Carter <knghtbrd at bluecherry.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 05:08:23PM -0700, Harald Sundt wrote:
> > You see, a single user on a Mac OS X Box doesn't necessarily "know"
> > he or she is "running as Root". A folder copied and ported has "root"
> > permissions. If you are running as a User on your Linux Machine, as
> > is a good Unix Box habit, the "root" file permissions will deny you
> > permission to save an opened file.
>
> Uhh..
>
> tjcarter at miya:~$ id
> uid=3D501(tjcarter) gid=3D501(tjcarter) groups=3D501(tjcarter),
> 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 80(admin)
>
> That's not root.
>
> I can sudo, and I can make root a valid login account, but my single user
> isn't root.  I have no idea what you're doing to get root permissions when
> you copy a file over, but it ain't MacOS X's fault the file is read-only
> other than for root when you do it.
>
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