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There is something I still don't get
Authored by: hamarkus on Oct 26, '05 09:56:19AM

That is how I understand it as well but I guess I am still missing something, because to me this system really looks ridiculous.

Example 1: Two Macs with one user each, both have the same UID (501). Connect them directly or via a network and they can read each others files because they have the same UID????

Example 2: Two Macs (A & B) with two users (1 & 2) each, one having UID 501 and the other 502 respectively. User 1 on Mac A tries to share files with user 2 on Mac B via an external firewire drive. They cannot read each others file on the drive because they have different UIDs (if the box, 'Ignore ownership on this volume' is not checked)????



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