USB mounting automatically : users option?

[Chris Jones]

>> Hi,

>
> Owners and groups are actually numbers UIDs and GIDs - always.  The
> text is just a label for humans.
> So, if a file is owned by user 500, it checks the /etc/passwd file,
> and sees user 500 has name 'fred' and displays 'fred' on the screen.
> If you take that drive to another computer that doesn't have a user
> 500, it just prints 500.  If that other computer has a user 500 called
> john - it prints John on the screen.

Thats essentially what I was trying to say, only put a little better.

Another point worth making is a file 'owned' by fred on the first  
system will be 'owned' by john on the second. As you say, the file  
system doesn't care about user names, only user IDs.

Chris

>
>
> Perhaps it would be helpful to create a group called 'gitusers' or
> something, with a specified group number of say 5555 or whatever on
> every computer you want to hook that drive up to.
>
> Brian
>
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