Re: Ownership/permissions of files on an external disk drive used with several PCs

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 27 09:51, Olivier Renaud wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My question is how to best manage ownership/permission on an external 
> disk drive.
> I'm using an external drive with different PCs, and/or different 
> accounts and groups. I would like that all files created or modified on 
> any PC/account is readable AND modifiable from any other PC/account 
> (files created from Windows apps or cygwin (e.g. emacs, latex,...)).
> For the moment, the default ownership is typically 644 (-rw-r--r--) and 
> therefore not modifiable from an other PC/account (from an other PC the 
> ownership and group are displayed as ???????? ???????? ).
> Up to now, I manually modify permission or ownership, but I would very 
> much appreciate an automatic procedure. for example such that all files 
> created (from Windows AND cygwin) are 666. Note that I can not change 
> the name of the different accounts I'm using on different PCs.

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Corinna

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