On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:06:04AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/24/2018 05:50 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >... > > > >The discussion so far has caused me to wonder if I have been > >conflating symptoms. I think I've an idea of how to test for that > >-- more later. > > Preliminary tests indicate that is likely. > I will have to get some new flash drives to track my tests. > Linux intrinsically assumes one machine has multiple users.
...and it is right in its assumption. > In *MY* case, one user has multiple machines. ...and you're right in your assumption. You won't make any progress unless you try to reconcile both. It's *your* responsibility, since you are the sapient entity :) > I also have multiple instances of Debian installed on a physical > machine. I routinely want something from another partition - Debian > requires root access for that. You should be more precise: root access for what? There are several distinct "stages" in that access. Mounting? Read access? Mount is most definitely a root operation, and there are very strong reasons for that (but things can be delegated). After mount, things get very dependent on things (e.g. which file system, etc.) > I'm wondering if some of my > chaos/confusion stems from copying data from that partition to a > flash drive. If you did the copy as root, didn't specify to keep file owner and group (as in cp -p or cp -a) then yes, the owner/group of your copies ends up as root. Cheers -- t
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