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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500
> =BBQ=AB <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the
>> drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for
>> user B on machine Y to modify the file.  (User A and user B are both
>> me, but with different UIDs on the different machines.)
>
> You could use ACL as has been  suggested; you could also just set the
> uids of the (same) user on these machines to the same thing.
>
> Using the same uid across boxes is a really good idea if you have users
> on each box anyway.

I wonder if you could share and mount it using samba/cifs or
something, which allows fudging of the UID/GID ...