-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:40:10AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:32:29AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm in a multi-boot environment, multiple installs of Debian. > > I want all install to have read/write/execute permissions. > > The partition will effectively be serving as a common scratch pad > > in order to exchange information. There is organically a single > > user, [*ME*] and there is *NO* networking of any sort whatsoever. > > The simplest way would be to synchronize your UID across all your > installed operating systems. If your UID is, let's say, 1000 on every > system, and the files on the partition are owned by user 1000, then > user 1000 (you) will have ownership of the files whenever you mount > the partition. > > If that's not an option, then you'll need to use Unix permissions. > If you can synchronize a *group* GID across all OSes, then you can > just make the files and directories group-writable by that group. > > Otherwise, you'll have to make everything world-writable.
Well, there's bindfs [1], where you can (via FUSE) mount a directory somewhere else, and (among other things) map user/group IDs. Never tried it, but it sounds like hellish fun. I'd prefer synchronizing the IDs, though. But in a pinch... There is a like-named Debian package. [1] http://bindfs.org/docs/bindfs.1.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgPgU0ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYHfQCdENS+HXbiFqhFEdCNBv6uwNvN 82gAnRcltXzyyF8fr+FJmeV1a26QzTnL =piYm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
