ntfs-3g/ntfsprogs/ntfsusermap.8.in

.\" Copyright (c) 2007-2016 Jean-Pierre André.
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.TH NTFSUSERMAP 8 "February 2016" "ntfsusermap 1.2.0"
.SH NAME
ntfsusermap \- NTFS Building a User Mapping File
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ntfsusermap
\fIwindows-system-device\fP
\fB[\fIother-ntfs-device\fP...\fB]\fR
.PP
Where \fIwindows-system-device\fP is the device containing the Windows system
whose users are to be mapped to current Linux system.
.PP
And \fIother-ntfs-device\fP is another device containing files which are
to be accessed both by the Windows mentioned above and current Linux system.
.PP
the ntfsusermap command must be started as root, and the designated devices
must not be mounted.
.PP
Typing ntfsusermap with no args will display a summary of command
arguments.
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBntfsusermap\fR
creates the file defining the mapping of Windows accounts to Linux logins for
users who owns files which should be visible from both Windows and
Linux.
.PP
It relies on existing files which were created on Windows, trying
to locate significant files and asking which Linux user or group should
own them. When a Linux owner or group is requested, the reply may be :
.PP
- the uid or gid (numeric or symbolic) of Linux owner or group of the file.
.RS
In that situation, no more file with the same Windows owner will be selected.
.RE
- or no answer, when not able to define the owner or group.
.RS
In that situation another file owned by the same Windows user or group
may be selected later so that a mapping can be defined.
.RE
.PP
The mappings for standard Windows users, such as "Administrator" or
"All Users" are defined implicitly. As a consequence a user mapping should
never be defined as Linux root.
.PP
When there are no more significant files, ntfsusermap create the
mapping file into the file UserMapping in the current directory. This
file has to be moved to the hidden directory .NTFS-3G in the root of
all the NTFS file systems to be shared between Windows and Linux. This
requires the file system to be mounted, but the created file will not
be taken into account if not present at mount time, which means the
file system has to be unmounted and mounted again for the new mapping
file to be taken into account.
.SH OPTIONS
No option is defined for ntfsusermap.
.SH EXAMPLES
Map the users defined on the Windows system present on /dev/sda1 :
.RS
.sp
.B ntfsusermap /dev/sda1
.sp
.RE
.PP
A detailed example, with screen displays is available on
http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/ntfsusermap.html
.SH EXIT CODES
.B ntfsusermap
exits with a value of 0 when no error was detected, and with a value
of 1 when an error was detected.
.SH KNOWN ISSUES
Please see 
.RS
.sp
http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/
.sp
.RE
for common questions and known issues.
If you would find a new one in the latest release of
the software then please send an email describing it
in detail. You can contact the 
development team on the ntfs\-3g\-devel@lists.sf.net
address.
.SH AUTHORS
.B ntfs-3g.secaudit
has been developed by Jean-Pierre André.
.SH THANKS
Several people made heroic efforts, often over five or more
years which resulted the ntfs-3g driver. Most importantly they are 
Anton Altaparmakov, Richard Russon, Szabolcs Szakacsits, Yura Pakhuchiy,
Yuval Fledel, and the author of the groundbreaking FUSE filesystem development 
framework, Miklos Szeredi.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ntfsprogs (8),
.BR attr (5),
.BR getfattr (1)