Well, there is a difference. In short, the disk file system only knows about the uid and gid numbers. The operating system then matches these values with user and group names, based on its user database. As long as you are only working against a local hard drive this is seldom something which you have to think about. When you'r using SSHFS to connect to a remote server on the other hand...
That is why I earlier was asking about the different user and group names, as well as uid and gid on the machines involved. I'm still interested in that information, if I'm about to do something more with this bug report. In my experience FUSE/SSHFS handles these differences for you, and grants you the proper permissions, even if the user options might look "wrong". Yet, some programs can still be fouled by this, and hence refuse some operation. See the SSHFS FAQ for more information on uid and gid mapping http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=SshfsFaq -- sshfs using wrong user/group https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315034 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
