Use VFAT on the exteral drive. no real file perms.

Danny Kutner wrote:
> Is there a way then to have dual ownership or have the same user on
> multiple computers?
> The problem is when I backup files over ssh to an external drive, they
> are owned by the server. Later when I want to back up directly to the
> drive, I will not have permissions to do so.
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Kosala Atapattu
> <kosala.atapattu (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>> Sorry for the delay, just now went through your /etc/passwd. After
>> reading once more through your mail, if I understand correctly, when
>> you create a file through ssh, login to the _server_ with a user
>> account in the _server_ from a client, the files you create will be
>> owned but the _server_ account you logged in with. This is the correct
>> behavior.
>>
>> Changing this behavior is not something I tried before.
>>
>> Kosala
>>
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Danny Kutner <getisboy (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>>> I just got OpenSSH running through Cygwin and there are some ownership
>>> issues. It seems that any file I create over ssh is then owned by the
>>> host user (DELL4550\Family), not the client computer
>>> (DELLNOTEBOOK05\Family). This creates problems when running backup
>>> programs that utilize ssh.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to correct this?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Danny
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Kosala
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