I have a f9 system at home and it is used by me, wife and kids. Sometimes we want to share files docs, pictures and stuff. Here are my plans, 1. mkdir /fileshare 2. create "share" group 3. add all users this group 4. chmod -R ug+rwx /fileshare 5. chown -R root:share /fileshare 6. for each user, rm -rf /home/<user>/Public 7. for each user, ln -s /fileshare /home/<user>/Public Whatever they copy to their Public directory, it will be visible by all. Will this work? Is there a better idea?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip(a)kanarip.com&gt; wrote: > Steve Repo wrote: > >> I have a f9 system at home and it is used by me, wife and kids. >> >> Sometimes we want to share files docs, pictures and stuff. Here are my >> plans, >> >> 1. mkdir /fileshare >> >> 2. create "share" group >> >> 3. add all users this group >> >> 4. chmod -R ug+rwx /fileshare >> >> 5. chown -R root:share /fileshare >> >> 6. for each user, rm -rf /home/<user>/Public >> >> 7. for each user, ln -s /fileshare /home/<user>/Public >> >> Whatever they copy to their Public directory, it will be visible by all. >> >> Will this work? Is there a better idea? >> >> > In addition to your chmod -R ug+rwx /fileshare command, how about you make > the group permissions "stick" to newly created files and directories inside > /fileshare? > > chmod g+s /fileshare > > Note that all users in the share group can then create/modify/delete all > files and directories in /fileshare > > Note that you are allowing the users to delete the directory /fileshare/ > itself as well... > > Thanks for all the tips! How do I prevent someone from deleting /fileshare?

You could try using ACLs. Each user would have specific permissions. Each file and directory can have custom access. Do "man setfacl".

create "share" group