Ubuntu accessing MacOSX user folder.

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 02/10/2012 10:56 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
> <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
>> 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...
>
> I do not know if Mac OS X provides id, but try it in the terminal:
>
> id user_name
>
>
>
	Sweet! Thanks. This message is getting flagged as a keeper...


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