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On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 08:11:27 -0700 |
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Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 00:20, Spider wrote: |
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> > Also, what are suggested practices for shared media disks? Many |
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> > people want something like /media/music (/media/video) partitions |
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> > for the shared collection of music/media files between computer |
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> > users. How should we setup permissions and recommendations for |
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> > such? |
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> There are a few options I can think of offhand: |
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> 1. Everything goes straight into /media or media-based subdirs, |
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> read-only by some media group |
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/media is the common mount-point according to the standard, lets not |
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break it more than we already do. |
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ownership set to some media group is quite good, i use "audio" for my |
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music files, since people has to be in the audio-group to play them |
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anyhow, and it allows a single permission for both accessing the sound |
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and so on. |
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> 2. Same, except also writable. This allows users to physically share |
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> music rather than allowing the sysadmin to decide what's shared. |
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Thats pretty much the case we want, home-users probably -want- to share |
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music between accounts, rather than separating them. ok. ~/Music with |
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umode 022 can be used as well, if all users are in the same main group. |
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> 3. A combination of the two, something like /media/dropbox/ that's |
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> writable. |
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Thats like /tmp, sticky bit set, world writeable, (chmod 1777) where |
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only the owner can remove the files. Decent solution, but doesn't |
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really make sure that all the users have -read- access to all files. |
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> 4. Subdirs in /media per-user, each rw by user, ro by group. This |
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> sucks to dig through looking for things but keeps permissions well. |
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bad separation and sucky, its better to just use ~ in such a case. |
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> Thoughts? |
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Currently I'm using chmod 1777 /media/music, and run a script to |
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regularly set the permissions below it as this: |
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chgrp -R audio |
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chmod g+rw (for files) |
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chmod g+rxw (for directories) |
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however, this isn't really "optimal", but it works, and allows all users |
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to actually share the music. The whole idea is that the directory is |
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common storage, the same goes for other media. Things that are private |
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go into ~ anyhow. |
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the main argument for it is that I/we can export /media/music over |
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samba/nfs for other people, it separates user-data from "global commune" |
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data (at least where I live its perfectly ok to share music like this. |
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*waves to the RIAA* ) |
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//Spider |
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Tortured users / Laughing in pain |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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