On Saturday 26 May 2007 15:58, Albert Hopkins wrote: > [ Since I gone ahead and polluted the list I'll give my take ] > > On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 14:36 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > It has been a constant burden to me to have to change the file > > permissions of > > > files I've copied so that other users can access them and modify them. > > Say I > > > have a number of documents in the /root folder which the root user > > owns. Now > > > I want to transfer them to my non-priveliged user so I can work on > > them... > > > But I have to chown them so that is possible. > > > > It just occured to me that there must be an easier way to do things > > like this > > > and I was wondering if you fine fellows could guide me down the right > > path. > > > In my experience it's very rare that root would need to do it. If root > is reserved mostly for doing those dirty sys-admin tasks then it needn't > worry much about file sharing with those pesky users, so far as to say > the usual root-shared files (libraries, executables, /usr/share, etc.) > > Usually it's the case that a) Users need to share a file with root or b) > users need to share files with each other. In the former case it's > trivial. All your file are belong to root. In the latter case, there > are varying methods of doing it, depending on the desired effect. If > it's just a one-time thing usually you'll deposit a file in /tmp > or /var/tmp and share it there. Another way is to consider a group of > users are working a project. Call it project1. > > Create a group called project1: > $ groupadd project1 > > Add users to the group: > $ gpasswd -a user1 project1 > $ gpasswd -a user2 project1 > $ gpasswd -a user3 project1 > > Create a shared directory for the group: > $ mkdir -p /usr/local/projects/project1 > $ chgrp project1 /usr/local/projects/project1 > $ chmod g+s /usr/local/projects/project1 > > Then, depending on your user's umask's they should all have access to > files created in that directory. > > You could also use ACLs but you need make sure your kernel and toolset > is configured for it. > > But I can't remember the last time i needed to share anything in /root > with a non-root user. > -- > Albert W. Hopkins
Hey, thanks that makes sense :) Thanks again. -- --- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net/ GnuPG Public Key: http://www.danthehat.net/wp-content/uploads/public.asc
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