-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 08:12:46AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > > UTC Time: July 13, 2017 11:13 AM > > From: to...@tuxteam.de > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:08:27PM +0200, Kaj Persson wrote: > > [...] > >> As always only root can mount a file system. In the case vfat, which > >> does not have an access system by its own, the owner of the mounted > >> system will be root. > > As a hint (I"m not a purist, mind you): I always mount vfat (well, > > at least when I plan to access them as regular user): > > sudo mount -ouid=tomas,gid=tomas /dev/sdb1 /mnt > > This makes my life easier (yes, you can put the user name in there, > > and separating uid=foo,gid=bar with a comma (no space!) should > > work for you. > > As to your original problem... sorry. > > Cheers > > Minor note and question: > If he or anyone else is using other than MSwin more than one linux/unix > system with a common /home partition and wants access to the > same /home/user if "user" corresponds to 1001 in Debian and 1003 in > LinuxX then the name user will not allow access to the other system as > on is user 1001 and the other 1003, two different users with the same > label. The other way around seems to work with my experience, if > 1002 is Deb on one system and 1002 is Ian on another then it shows > as the same user. The true owner is described by the id not the label, > I think!
I couldn't really follow your thoughts. It is simple: the command "mount" translates the user and group names to some IDs according to whatever mapping is defined in the current /etc/passwd. Windows... is another story completely. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAllncpkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZDsgCfX5QhwauiGu4Hk1hw5cKDzl+6 jZcAn1lo3C8WaUrRoJCDxp0ZOavAVudQ =S/Z9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
