Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> The current user is: rocketmouse
> The uid is         : 1001
> 
> Isn't it possible to change the uid to 1000?
> This would cause that the owner wouldn't be rocketmouse anymore, but
> still 1001. I then could run chown -R for /home/rocketmouse to switch
> from 1001 to back to rocketmouse = new uid 1000.
> 
> Or another idea would be to create a new user with the uid 1000 and
> then to add rocketmouse to the group of this user. I guess this is
> what you already recommended.

yes, this is what I would do.

Erich