Creating a common folder for all users

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Steve Repo wrote:
> I have a f9 system at home and it is used by me, wife and kids.
> 
> Sometimes we want to share files docs, pictures and stuff. Here are my plans,
> 
> 1. mkdir /fileshare
> 
> 2. create "share" group
> 
> 3. add all users this group
> 
> 4. chmod -R ug+rwx /fileshare
> 
> 5. chown -R root:share /fileshare
> 
> 6. for each user, rm -rf /home/<user>/Public
> 
> 7. for each user, ln -s /fileshare /home/<user>/Public
> 
> Whatever they copy to their Public directory, it will be visible by all.
> 
> Will this work? Is there a better idea?
> 

In addition to your chmod -R ug+rwx /fileshare command, how about you 
make the group permissions "stick" to newly created files and 
directories inside /fileshare?

chmod g+s /fileshare

Note that all users in the share group can then create/modify/delete all 
files and directories in /fileshare

Note that you are allowing the users to delete the directory /fileshare/ 
itself as well...

-Jeroen