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[ Since I gone ahead and polluted the list I'll give my take ] |
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On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 14:36 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> It has been a constant burden to me to have to change the file |
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permissions of |
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> files I've copied so that other users can access them and modify them. |
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Say I |
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> have a number of documents in the /root folder which the root user |
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owns. Now |
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> I want to transfer them to my non-priveliged user so I can work on |
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them... |
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> But I have to chown them so that is possible. |
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> It just occured to me that there must be an easier way to do things |
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like this |
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> and I was wondering if you fine fellows could guide me down the right |
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path. |
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In my experience it's very rare that root would need to do it. If root |
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is reserved mostly for doing those dirty sys-admin tasks then it needn't |
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worry much about file sharing with those pesky users, so far as to say |
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the usual root-shared files (libraries, executables, /usr/share, etc.) |
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Usually it's the case that a) Users need to share a file with root or b) |
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users need to share files with each other. In the former case it's |
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trivial. All your file are belong to root. In the latter case, there |
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are varying methods of doing it, depending on the desired effect. If |
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it's just a one-time thing usually you'll deposit a file in /tmp |
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or /var/tmp and share it there. Another way is to consider a group of |
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users are working a project. Call it project1. |
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Create a group called project1: |
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$ groupadd project1 |
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Add users to the group: |
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$ gpasswd -a user1 project1 |
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$ gpasswd -a user2 project1 |
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$ gpasswd -a user3 project1 |
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Create a shared directory for the group: |
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$ mkdir -p /usr/local/projects/project1 |
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$ chgrp project1 /usr/local/projects/project1 |
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$ chmod g+s /usr/local/projects/project1 |
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Then, depending on your user's umask's they should all have access to |
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files created in that directory. |
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You could also use ACLs but you need make sure your kernel and toolset |
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is configured for it. |
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But I can't remember the last time i needed to share anything in /root |
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with a non-root user. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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