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Best way to share folders between user accounts? (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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The one thing stopping me from having a "work profile" "private profile" etc, is the permissions.

I could hardlink folders from one user to another, but then there would be permission issues.

I could do a chown -r /home/user/Work but every newly created file would again belong to "work" and I couldnt edit it with "private" for example.

Libreoffice also doesnt like any permission issues and will only open a copy in those cases.

Would I need an autostart script using pkexec, or a systemd service to always make both users recursively owners of these directories? Is there a better way?

Btw, I use Fedora Kinoite (KDE) and moving things from one user to another takes very long, unlike moving withing the same user. It seems as if it would really change the file location, not just the pointer, but I am no BTRFS expert at all.

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[–] ouch@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Create group, add users to group, create a new directory, chown it to the group, chmod g+s and done.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Best solution.

[–] knobbysideup@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

You'll also need umask for each user to be 002 for it to work transparently.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could put users in the same group, and give some folders group permissions.

[–] jcrabapple 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the way.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz -1 points 2 years ago

This is the way.

[–] dack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Aside from the group suggestions, you could also use ACLs. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Access_Control_Lists

[–] fhein@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I could hardlink folders from one user to another

I don't think you could, afaik hardlinks are only allowed for files. You might be able to something similar with a bind mount though.

Personally I keep those kind of folders outside a single user's home dir. On one computer I have /home/Shared (not a real user, I just put the folder there.. no idea if it's a bad idea, but noone else is going to be creating users on that computer anyway).