Re: permissions on folders
On (09/06/05 10:39), Jon Roed wrote:
> I recently installed limewire (a file sharing program) and i am wondering if
> there is a way to share one downloads folder between both users on the
> system ? I tried creating a directory called /downloads and giving everyone
> permission to it, but limewire wouldn't let me use it. Anyone know why ? Is
> there a trick to getting around that ?
>
Check out chown and chmod man pages. I'm assuming that the downloads
arrive in your home directory? If they arrive in a specific folder
within $home then you could chown that directory to be owned by you and
accessible by say group 'staff' which exists within Debian. You then
add your colleague to group staff:
adduser colleague staff
Make sure there are rwx permissions for the group.
However, if staff is already used create a new group (addgroup) and use
that.
Regards
Clive
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