On Tuesday, September 02, 2014 05:07:36 AM Ed Greshko wrote: > And, as others have already pointed out, it is the numerical UID/GID being > the same across all systems which makes it work. I mentioned all of this > earlier on in this thread.... This is a very weird scheme of things. We allow a system with generic set of UID/GID but block on some. If all you need to access a hard drive's data is to set correct UID/GID then why bother about it all. And anyone can chown the disk and have any sort of access they want. It should be automatically ported to the current user for sake of convenience at least for folks who use graphical file managers. -- Sudhir Khanger, http://sudhirkhanger.com http://github.com/donniezazen -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org