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computercolin 01-18-2007 06:06 PM

Need permission solution for sharing media among users
 
I have been unable to find satisfactory solution for my computing scenario. I have a collection of images as well as music I would like to share between several users on a single machine. The files are located in /media/images and /media/music respectively. However, I have not found a suitable way to force the permissions of files added to these two directories to allow all the other users access files added by other users. I have tried ACL with default ACLs, and while I can make new files inherit the default permissions of the directory, when files are copied to these directories, they preserve their original permissions.

So, for example, user bob mounts a SD card and copies the images to /media/images. The images retain their permissions from the SD card and are read/writeable by bob, only readable by group and others. I would like all files in /media/image to be forced to be read/writable by group. Since I don't have a good solution, user Sue logs on, tries to edit the image, but cannot.

A messy approach I have tried is to have a script (with UID bit set) run at login and chmod (or setfacl, for a different approach) /media recursively. Even though this works, its rough, slow, and the user might attempt to use a file before the script has finished changing the permissions for all the files.

I'm not sure there is a way to force permissions in linux, even with ACLs. But there has to be a better solution. Could I mount /media separately so that all users of a certain group gain rw access? Or should I set up a network share (like Samba) so that users access /media through a network mount and the network share manages the privledges? Should I use a virtual file system (questionable)? Should I make everyone root and never worry about permissions again? Just kidding on the last one:)

Thanks,
Colin

Hitboxx 01-18-2007 06:25 PM

Maybe create a group called media_users, give required permissions to this group and add all the respective users to this group.

Also "cp --no-preserve" command doesn't retain any attributes from the SD card. See 'man cp' for more info.

computercolin 01-21-2007 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shrikant.odugoudar
Also "cp --no-preserve" command doesn't retain any attributes from the SD card.

I'll have to try that. Perhaps I'll just write a script that copies files from the card to the appropriate directory with the --no-preserve argument.

Still, is there a way to force the permissions of a file going into the /media directory regardless of how the other users put them there. There is no guarantee that the other uses will use the --no-preserve argument.

Perhaps there is some way to configure the File Alteration Monitor so that it will change the permissions on files as they are added to the /media directory.

Thanks,
Colin


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