Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

[Erich Dollansky]

Hallo Ralf,

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:53:52 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 07:31 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100
> > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > root at freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt
> > > drwxrwx---  21 1000  1000   4096 Oct 28 19:11 archlinux
> > > drwxrwxrwx   2 root  wheel  4096 Jan 20 20:09 dump
> > > 
> > it seems that you do not have a user with the id 1000 on this
> > machine. Create one and that user will be able to access it.
> 
> Hallo Erich :)
> 
> correct, as already mentioned, the uid of the FreeBSD user is 1001.
> Why doesn't change chown the user and group, why do I get ---? I'll
> try it again, perhaps it was voodoo ;).
> 
> Assumed it wasn't voodoo, is there no way to get consistent rwx
> permissions for "others" or to get a consistent group "wheel" instead
> of "1000"? Why do I get those permissions, owner and group
> automatically? And why does it differ to what I get for /dump?
> 
root and wheel have the ID 0. All other IDs are more or less randomly
used. I use scripts on my systems to have always the same IDs.

> I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD
> user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000?

Of course, this would work. But then all existing files of the existing
FreeBSD would be without owner.

Erich