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Sadly the built in UNIX way of doing permissions, with it's notions of users, groups, and "others" is in practice quite difficult to use to make "shared folders". [http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/setfacl1.html FACL] (for file access control lists) is an extension to these mechanisms that gives more flexibility. | Sadly the built in UNIX way of doing permissions, with it's notions of users, groups, and "others" is in practice quite difficult to use to make "shared folders". [http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/setfacl1.html FACL] (for file access control lists) is an extension to these mechanisms that gives more flexibility. | ||
Revision as of 11:16, 16 March 2017
Sadly the built in UNIX way of doing permissions, with it's notions of users, groups, and "others" is in practice quite difficult to use to make "shared folders". FACL (for file access control lists) is an extension to these mechanisms that gives more flexibility.
So, the command to Allow anyone in the users group to write files to path/to/some/folder
setfacl -Rm g:users:rwX /path/to/some/folder/ setfacl -d -Rm g:users:rwX /path/to/some/folder/