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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