[nmglug] messed up permissions!

Gary Sandine gars at laclinux.com
Mon Apr 10 21:54:27 PDT 2006


Brian,

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:28 -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> On Monday 10 April 2006 8:02 pm, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> I read my message and I want to clarify "My OS X ID is "501" so I didn't know 
> how or if I should change it." I mean if I need to change the command, 
> specifically the "1000" to "501" if I run it logged into Ubuntu. If I should 
> just run them just as you wrote below in OSX then that is simplest.

Owner and group of files and directories is really numeric.  You can do
this in OS X:

sudo chown -R 1000 /volumes/Untitled/home/brianokeefe

or you can do this in Unbuntu (as root):

chown -R 1000 /home/brianokeefe

or this in Ubuntu (as root, assuming your user name is brianokeefe in
Ubuntu):

chown -R brianokeefe /home/brianokeefe

Any will have the desired effect.  It's fine to have UID 501 in OS X and
UID 1000 in Ubuntu.  I'd leave it that way...

-- 
Gary Sandine <gars at laclinux.com>





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