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Re: Ownership/permissions of files on an external disk drive used with several PCs
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:25:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: Ownership/permissions of files on an external disk drive used with several PCs
- References: <445077FB.6090906@pse.unige.ch>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 27 09:51, Olivier Renaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is how to best manage ownership/permission on an external
> disk drive.
> I'm using an external drive with different PCs, and/or different
> accounts and groups. I would like that all files created or modified on
> any PC/account is readable AND modifiable from any other PC/account
> (files created from Windows apps or cygwin (e.g. emacs, latex,...)).
> For the moment, the default ownership is typically 644 (-rw-r--r--) and
> therefore not modifiable from an other PC/account (from an other PC the
> ownership and group are displayed as ???????? ???????? ).
> Up to now, I manually modify permission or ownership, but I would very
> much appreciate an automatic procedure. for example such that all files
> created (from Windows AND cygwin) are 666. Note that I can not change
> the name of the different accounts I'm using on different PCs.
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