Re: File ownership problem using removeable media

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2018-12-23 12:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I use USB drives to transfer files between systems (sneakernet).
> All systems have only one user(richard). It was created during 
> installation.
>
> The drives are either ext2 or ext4 formatted.
> All files were in /user/richard on source machine
>
> They _often_ [but not always] are seen as owned by 'root', not
> 'richard', by the destination system.
>
> Why? I assume it is me in some manner.
>
> What do I have to do to guarantee absolutely that any file/directory
> from /home/richard is seen by destination system as owned by
> 'richard'?
>
> What should I have read?
>
> TIA

find /home/richard -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
find /home/richard -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
chown -R richard /home/richard*;
chgrp -R richard /home/richard*;

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