Another option is ACLs, which works nicely if you need fine grained, multiple group permissions control:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ACLSupport (shameless plug for the howto I wrote, and coincidentally referring to right now before I read this list post ;) ) Cheers, Jordan Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:54:52PM -0700, David Burgess wrote: > > >> I'm sure there are other solutions, but mine has been to change the >> default umask to something like 007 and then if I want user tina to be >> able to edit files from joe, I just adduser tina joe, then tina can >> edit joe's files. >> > > The usual way to handle shared directories, within Unix, anyway, is by a > combination of umask, and the setgid bit on the directory: > > mkdir /home/shared > chgrp users /home/shared > chmod g+w /home/shared > chmod g+s /home/shared > > Now, you'll have a directory which is group-owned by "users". All users in > the > group "users" will be able to create content here, and *regardless* of their > primary group ownership, any file they create within the "shared" folder, will > be group owned by "user". > > This, coupled with a default umask of 007 makes it easy to create shared > folders that just "do the right thing". > > Hope this helps somebody. > > Scott > > -- Jordan Erickson Owner, Logical Networking Solutions http://www.logicalnetworking.net 707-636-5678 Latest LNS Blogs - http://blog.logicalnetworking.net 2.0 TB (2,000 Gigabyte) Hard Drive from Western Digital Mac trojan horse discovered in pirated Photoshop Meet the Via Nano ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
