On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:36 PM, John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Wes, Ioannis and Phill for the very helpful responses to the above > post. > > I know a fair amount more on this topic now than when I first posted, and > though the first post (by Wes) about SetUID, and SetGID went directly over > my head, subsequent posts make it clear that this should probably be part of > the solution here. In fact, I had already realized that my proposed setup > would result in a mixture of user ownership in the user1 directory -- > perhaps not a problem, but setuid and setgid would clean that up. > > In the manpage for adduser.conf, there is this somewhat vague caution > involving setgid, but no one here has echoed any concerns about it for my > situation (unless it plays into Wes's point about dot files): > SETGID_HOME > If this is set to yes, then home directories for users > with > their own group ( USERGROUPS=yes ) will have the setgid bit > set. > This was the default setting for adduser versions << > 3.13. > Unfortunately it has some bad side effects, so we no longer > do > this per default. If you want it nevertheless you can > still > activate it here. > > The point about having only one set of dot files for more than one user is > also well taken, but at the moment I am not envisioning that as a real issue > for this scenario. > > It's also instructive that Ioannis does not see membership of normal users > in the system group "users" as any sort of transgression against the intent > or design of the default system group layout. Perhaps this is the very sort > of thing the "users" group is intended for.
Also, depending on what you want, you can create that common directory, outside users' home directories (e.g. like /common_directory). If you want both users to see it inside their home directories (/home/user1, /home/user2), you can create a symbolic link (ln -s) to this /common_directory, inside each user's home directory. That is, inside /home/user1, and /home/user2, you type: ln -s /common_directory -- Ioannis Vranos http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
