Re: [gentoo-user] Share hard drive for multiple users

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:24:10 -0800, Andrey Falko wrote:

> Do you have rw permission set to the contents of the the formatted
> harddrive? For example, if you want the whole thing to be rwx, do
> chmod 777 /mnt/C/* -R. I personally, would do this:
>
> find /mnt/C -type d | xargs chmod 777
> find /mnt/C -type f | xargs chmod 666
>
> This will make all directories in the drive writeable, readable and
> executable (necessary for dirs) to everyone. All files will be readable
> and writeable to everyone.

But new files will still be only writeable by their creator.

You should look at using ACLs for this.

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Neil Bothwick

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