What are optimal schemes for establishing directories containing data to
be shared amongst several users, with no conceptual individual owner?
(confined to the host and/or exported over a network by, e.g., NFS)

FHS does not explicitly state a convention, but it suggests an alternate
subdivision of /home (e.g., /home/staff), which appears to be an elegant
way of adding, in addition to users' home dirs, e.g.,
/home/staff/shared, in contrast to, e.g., /home/shared.

Although not stated by FHS, it should be noted that some distros provide
by default a /home/<USER>/shared dir (granting rx to g or go). However,
this scheme would be only appropriate for shared data conceptually owned
by an individual, versus shared data conceptually owned by a group.

FHS also mentions one possible methodology for naming within /srv,
namely administrative context, which would elegantly allow for, e.g.,
/srv/physics/shared.

Various sources (e.g., NFS's exports(5)) suggest schemes which create
dirs within /, e.g., /pub, but this appears inelegant and violates FHS.

Any ideas?

-Ruslan
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Ruslan Nabioullin
[email protected]

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