On Sunday 09 May 2004 02:53 pm, Ulrich F�rst wrote: > > Where is the file? I don't run Mozilla, so I'm not familiar with that. > > Is it under /usr somewhere, or what? > > It's under /home/.mozilla/ ... > In this directory and in subdirectories mozilla stores it's settings > and the mails and so on.
OK, let's back up again. I'm still not completely clear what you have here. I think you have /home/you /home/your-wife Then you are trying to share files between each other by configuring various things to write directly to /home instead of /home/you or /home/your-wife Is that right? If so, that's very strange. How do you even have write permission on /home? What is the permission on that directory? It's supposed to be 755, and individual users are not supposed to be able to write to /home directly anyway. I presume you've changed this. I guess you can do it that way if you insist, but it seems messy and difficult to manage safely. Why not create a shared directory for the two of you with 775 permissions? Other posts that I missed previously already explained about setting your umask in various places. With the right umask (0000 would work, or you could be more restrictive), and a directory you can both access it should be possible to do what you want. Something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home ->mkdir shared-directory-demo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home ->chmod 755 shared-directory-demo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home ->chown root:your-family-group shared-directory-demo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home ->ls -ld shared-directory-demo/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root your-family-group 4096 May 9 21:04 shared-directory-demo// [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home ->cd shared-directory-demo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->su you [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->umask 0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->ls -l foo -rw-rw-rw- 1 you you 0 May 9 21:04 foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->cd .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home ->exit exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->su your-wife [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->umask 0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/shared-directory-demo ->ls -l foo -rw-rw-rw- 1 you you 0 May 9 21:05 foo You've made a directory, chowned it to your-family-group, set it to 775 so the group can write there. Then when you set your umask to 0 and create a file, your wife can then modify the same file, even though you still own it. This seems like what you want. It would probably be better to use a umask of 0007 instead, so you still have *some* control. (I should have used that in the above example, but I'm too lazy to go back and re-do it. :) Anyway, is this even helpful, or are you trying to do something I still don't quite understand? -- Michael McIntyre ---- you <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
