X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:51:23 +0200 From: Olivier Renaud Subject: Ownership/permissions of files on an external disk drive used with several PCs To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <445077FB.6090906@pse.unige.ch> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Comment: This message was scanned against viruses by mbox.unige.ch. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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. Olivier -- Olivier.Renaud@pse.unige.ch http://www.unige.ch/~renaud/ Methodology and Data Analysis - Section of Psychology - FPSE University of Geneva - 40, Bd du Pont d'Arve - CH-1211 Geneva 4 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/