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

[Ben Barrett]

Right, mount options:
-o uid=3Dvalue gid=3Dvalue
should work, if you're mounting it manually or have a config line option in
your gui.

   Ben


On 7/31/06, Dwight Hubbard <dwight.hubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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