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Re: Groups and Users...



on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:52:40AM -0500, Alexander Wallace (awallace@rwsoft-online.com) wrote:
> Hello there, I hope you can forgive my ignorance in this issues, I'm very
> new to debian and linux/unix in general...
> 
> I installed potato in this ibm pc 325 i got from ebay, everything is
> working great, I love it!
> 
> I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like
> to have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a common
> directory for the proyects we share and files we share... 
> 
> How would I go about that? does it go in /home? 

This is my pick.

I usually create "project" users for shared stuff, either one user per
task, or per organized workgroup.  There are things that are owned by
the project, and this tends to work better in general than other
approaches.  Managers access this account via sudo.

Files are managed under CVS or another versioning system.  Not using
version control is not an option.

An alternative is to create a projects directory under /usr/local (*not*
/usr), possibly symlinked to, and bypass the project-specific user
approach.  Problem is that this usually requires root access for various
administrative tasks.

Peace.

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