On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dan Farrell <d...@spore.ath.cx> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 > »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the >> drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for >> user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A and user B are both >> me, but with different UIDs on the different machines.) > > You could use ACL as has been suggested; you could also just set the > uids of the (same) user on these machines to the same thing. > > Using the same uid across boxes is a really good idea if you have users > on each box anyway.
I wonder if you could share and mount it using samba/cifs or something, which allows fudging of the UID/GID ...
