Accessing another home directory from mine

mavr1kwest · 01-25-2004, 06:06 PM

Good day everyone - i think this is a rather simple question, so maybe I can get an answer relatively quick.

On my machine, my user account is "npike" - and I have a storage account called "files" - where I keep backup information and what not.

Is there anyway I can make this directly accessable to my home account?

such that, a symbolic link would allow me to read/write to the home dir files?

Thank you!

jtshaw · 01-25-2004, 06:10 PM

What I would do is create a group called files. Set the group of everything /home/files to this new group called files. Then add both your user files and your user npike to the group. Make the files read/writeable by members of the group and set the suid bit on them all. Make sure you disable all permissions to people not in the group. Then you could do a symbolic like into your home directory and you should be able to do anything you want to the files.

linuxlah · 01-25-2004, 06:17 PM

First you have to change the file's home permisson so that npike to access it. I would do a "chmod -R 777 /home/file". Becareful though, this means anybody can do anything at /home/file. For convinience make a symbolic link in npike home to point to /home/file for easy access. I would do a " ln -s /home/file file". There is of course other way of doing this like change the /home/file to npike groups... but I leave that to you to find out.