Hi Reimar, This is good advice. I learn new things everyday and like the ssh X forwarding. You can just think if you have collected 5000 or more photos and have multiple users tag them at the same time, it will make light work of the task.
Thanks for the advice! Regards, Chris Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Reimar Stier <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:55:51 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Multiple users sharing same shotwell photo database Hi, i think there are still some issues. It seems like shotwell is ignoring the umask and newgrp statements =/ Tagging a photo that another user created will return an error as it cannot save the changes directly to the photo - only to the database. If the purpose of sharing the database is minimizing work tagging all those photos you might be interested ... I think there is another easy approach to share a shotwell database by dedicating an account 'photos' to photo management. While being logged into another account on this computer you can connect to the local ssh(ssh daemon needs to be installed of course) and simply use x-forwarding to start shotwell. Works as well ;-) # start shotwell with: ssh -X photos@localhost shotwell You don't need to worry about permissions or whatsoever - all pictures belong to the shared 'photos' account. Cheers, Reimar PS: 1.) For security issues you might want to lock ssh access from outside of the computer: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/ssh#Der-SSH-Server sudo gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 <-- uncomment and change to ListenAddress 127.0.0.1 # and restart ssh sudo service ssh restart 2.) If you like this approach you might also want to consider using ssh keys avoiding to enter the password each time you connect to your local machine. http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/ssh#Authentifizierung-ueber-Public-Keys _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
