Ubuntu accessing MacOSX user folder.

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 02/10/2012 10:34 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
> <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
>>         I've got my MacBook Pro dual booting OSX 10.6 and Ubuntu 11.10. Now
>> what I want to do is to be able to use the Documents (and others) folder in
>> the OSX user folder (/User/Dave/Documents) with Ubuntu as well.
>>         Yes, there are many how-tos that mention using a third partition for
>> this. Since I don't have a lot of extra space (and I'd rather not anyway); I
>> need to figure out a good way to get the permissions right...
>>         Since OSX user number is 501, and Ubuntu start at 1001; that's a bit
>> of a hiccup.
>>
>>         One thought I had was to create a group on each os, "crossover" and
>> set the groups to have matching numbers as well. Then in Mac OSX I would
>> give the crossover group rwx permissions on the folder I want access to.
>>         I'd also have to add a line to fstab to get the OSX partition mounted
>> automatically as well.
>>
>>         This all make sense, or am I headed down the wrong (or bad?) path?
>
> This sounds like a reasonable approach.
>
>
	Created the crossover group in OSX, and added me as a member. Now to 
determine what the group number is. And no, OSX doesn't keep it in 
/etc/group. Already looked in that...

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