Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > find / -xdev -user 1000 -exec chown 1001 {} +
> > find / -xdev -group 1000 -exec chgrp 1001 {} +
>
> "Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD":
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/subject.html#startThat is a sad tale. Sad because you had such problems. And sad because those problems could have been avoided. I read through the entire thread. I see that you were given basically the same advice on the FreeBSD list as I gave here. Which was to set the uids the same on both systems. And with a very similar find command too! :-) (Mine was more efficient however. <chucke/>) But there were several mistakes made executing the commands. Fortunately you were given help along the way which I think says nice things about the FreeBSD mailing list. FreeBSD seems to be slightly more complicated by having a binary form of the /etc/passwd file that must be compiled after changes to it are made. (I didn't know that.) That binary compilation step seems to have added confusion there. Nothing like that exists on Debian. But nothing there gives me any indication that the strategy of using the same uids everywhere is not the best strategy. I don't think that just become someone makes a typing mistake and types in the wrong command that it invalidates the strategy. If so then there couldn't be any good strategy because it is always possible to do the wrong thing and break anything. Really all that can be done is to be careful and think about what is happening. If a mistake is made, which is always possible, then remain calm and work through it. Definitely having a backup is always a risk management good plan. Bob
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