permissions

[JJ Neff]

You have to recall that the folder that is shared (in MS terminology) or has
access set to allow any group member to view it - itself must be in a viewable
or pass-through able folder (forgot the technical term :-).  A folder on your
desktop is normally in ~/Desktop or the like which means a group (USers) would
have to have the right to scroll through your /home/YOU/ home directory,
normally not what you want.

Instead create (just a suggestion) a generic /home/<user> account (I like
/export/home/data/) and then allow anyone in a group (the group that owns it)
to have RWX premissions, or just allow the data owner RWX and the group members
RX if you want read-only access.  

THe nice thign about this is you can also use the /home/data folder as a Samba
share for the Win computers.

The confusion lies in the fact that with *nix permissions there is not a Share
folder that automatically shares to everyone like in MS OSs.

Hope that helps and if I made any huge errors, I expect them to be pointed out.

JJN
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> To avoid things like that, when I setup a multi-user system in a
> friendly environment, I add all users the the users group, then I change
> permissions under /home for all users to be 770. That should eliminate
> future problems like that. Add the user to the users group,
> redhat-config-users on redhat, then open a terminal, become root and
> "chmod 770 /home"
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 11:16, JB wrote:
> 
> > I copied a CD full of pics to a folder on my user
> > desktop, which is part of a group. I can't figure out
> > how to access it from another user account in the
> > group. I right clicked on the pic folder hit
> > properties and under ownership I gave it to the group.
> > Should I have saved the pic folder in something like
> > /usr/sbin? I'm stuck on an easy one.
> > 
> > I appreciate all the feedback about partitioning, it
> > got me thinking and I swapped HD's. Now the faster 30
> > g HD is the master and the slower 10 g is the slave. I
> > like the partitioning scheme since I can monitor
> > everything better. This is what I ended up with but
> > will be adjusted next time. The only problem I had was
> > with the boot sector on the master. I had to reboot
> > the install because it said I had bad sectors. I had
> > to FDISK again and I formatted as vfat and it seemed
> > to fix the sectors. I didn't want to take any chances
> > anyway so I put the /boot on the slave.
> > (30 g master)
> > hda1 /jb 10 g
> > hda2 /usr 5 g
> > hda3 / 5 g
> > hda4 /usr/local 10 g
> > (10 g slave)
> > hdb1 /boot 94 m
> > hdb2 /home 8.2 g
> > hdb3 swap 1.5 g
> > I see the /boot could have been smaller and having the
> > swap on the slower drive isn't an advantage. Next time
> > I'll probably do it a little different but I think
> > this will work out great for now.
> > Thanks guys for all the help.
> 
> -- 
> Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> 


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