Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:12:56 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <50FE7438.4050700@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <20130122063230.c0d65521.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1358811229.2031.60.camel@precise> <20130122073125.459ad795@X220.ovitrap.com> <1358816032.3045.53.camel@precise> <20130122081804.5569d38c@X220.ovitrap.com> <1358818271.3045.66.camel@precise> <20130122063230.c0d65521.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 22/01/2013 05:32, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: >>>> I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD >>>> user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? >>> >>> Of course, this would work. But then all existing files of the existing >>> FreeBSD would be without owner. >> >> The current user is: rocketmouse >> The uid is : 1001 >> >> Isn't it possible to change the uid to 1000? >> This would cause that the owner wouldn't be rocketmouse anymore, but >> still 1001. I then could run chown -R for /home/rocketmouse to switch >> from 1001 to back to rocketmouse = new uid 1000. > > You would need to do two changes: First in the password database, > with chsh (tidy way) or by editing the /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd > and /etc/group files plus rebuilding the database with pwd_mkdb > (untidy way) to assign rocketmouse = 1000 on FreeBSD. Could you do this with pw(8)? # pw usermod rocketmouse -u 1000 checking first there isn't a uid 1000 already. Then chown -R Chris > > Then you would also have to "promote" this change to the file > system, as all the files still belong to a user with UID 1001. > Use chown -R with the new numerical value of 1000. > > Result: Your user would have the UID 1000 on all systems, so > all the "low level functions" would behave similarly. > > > >> Or another idea would be to create a new user with the uid 1000 and then >> to add rocketmouse to the group of this user. I guess this is what you >> already recommended. > > Yes, that would also work. You only have to make sure that > group permissions are valid, and the "access permission" is > provided in /etc/group properly. > > >
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