Most files will be generated new and it would be nice to have the ACL
inheritance for those cases.

I know can also make the shared group the default group, etc, but as time
goes on I think ACLs may be the best option.

AJ ONeal


On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Topher Fischer <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 08/31/2010 12:07 PM, AJ ONeal wrote:
> > I want to create a shared folder in /home/shared that multiple users
> > have write access to using ACLs.
> >
> > Occasionally I'll copy old directories over and I'll want to run the
> > same command recursively on them since inheritance does work for copied
> > folders.
> >
> > I've tried looking at some howtos online, but the commands I've tried
> > don't seem to be working for me.
> >
> >
> > Can someone give me an example of how to give 'john' and 'james' rw
> > permissions on all files and rwx permissions on all folders in
> /home/shared?
> >
> >
> > AJ ONeal
>
> I would just create a group and do this with group permissions.  Any
> reason why that would not work?
>
> # groupadd shared_folks
> # usermod -G shared_folks john
> # usermod -G shared_folks james
> # chgrp -R shared_folks /home/shared
> # find /home/shared -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
> # find /home/shared -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
>
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