On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 10:38:04PM -0400, Jag Talon wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to OpenBSD and I'm unfamiliar with permissions in general so I'm a > little lost. I installed syncthing, and it creates the default folder in > /var/syncthing/Sync which is owned by _syncthing and has the group > _syncthing. > > I'm able to read the contents of the directory, but I'm unable to write into > them. I tried adding myself to the _syncthing group by doing: > > usermod -G jag _syncthing
This must be the other way round: usermod -G <group> <username> Don't forget that you'll need a new login to notice the effects of this. > But it seems that I'm still unable to write to the directory. I know I can > change the ownership of the files by using chmod -R, but new files will > still have the same _syncthing user and group and it seems off to keep > changing permissions of the files. > > How do I enable the user `jag` to read and write to things owned by the > daemon `_syncthing`? > > Thank you so much! > --
