Hi Everyone

I want to share folder on every user who login to the system on his desktop whether he has a local user acccount or login using ldap server. Folder should be placed on his desktop. Does any one has suggestions?

Regards

Use a symbolic link or a hard link and give the folder appropriate permissions.

Suppose I have folder "test" on root of the file system. I want when any one login to the system whether first time that folder must be placed on his desktop. How I can accomplish this using soft or hard link.

Regards

First, ensure that /test has rwx permissions for your users.

Assuming that on your system the desktop is in $HOME/Desktop, do the following after adding a user:

This sets a symbolic link onto the user's desktop.

Perhaps you can automise it by making this link in /etc/skel/Desktop. See the man page for useradd for details.

First you need to give read write permission to the directory so any user would be able to modify it as it was said.

You can create a shell script for it so it will make link of test folder on Desktops of all users in one run.
If new users will be registered, you can add this script in cron so you do not need to run ln command everytime manually. Cron will do the work for you. Create link of test folder on desktop if it does not exist.

Whether new user is registered or not, you can check it from /etc/passwd file or if all user home folders in one directory like /home. you can check there. If there is new entry, create a link on the desktop.

@eklavya Can you create a shell script for me?

We need to see your efforts first. What have you written so far? Paste your code here and we will definitely help you to solve your problem.

My advice is not quite correct and, it seems, needs to be more detailed, so let me amend it.
Before writing a script, you need to test the approach. For example:

• Create two users, let's call them user1 and user2. I assume that their Desktop directories are /home/user1/Desktop and /home/user2/Desktop.
• Create a group for all those users that are supposed to access the shared directory. Let's call it common.
• Add that group to the new users. On the command line, this is done as follows:
  
  Code:

  usermod -a -G common user1
  usermod -a -G common user2

• Ensure that the /test directory can be accessed and written by members of group common. One way to do that is
  
  Code:

  chgrp common /test
  chmod g+rwx /test

• Link /test to the users' Desktop directory
  
  Code:

  ln -s /test /home/user1/Desktop

Now log on as user1 and user2 and test if they can use the folder in the intended way.

Once you are satisfied it all works, run a script like this each time you create a new user:
Let's call the script "setuptest". The $1 is a command line argument. For each user that requires /test to be on the Desktop, run "setuptest nameoftheuser". You can do that in a loop: