Hi,

I was wondering what is the best practice (on my ubuntu) for using a shared directory between multiple users on the same machine (i.e. analogously to the Documents and Settings/All Users on XP)?
Where would put that directory? /usr/share and then give rw to everyone?
Or maybe create a group "local users" and add the instances there and *then* give the group rw access to that folder?

Tia

According to the file hierarchy standard, /usr contains shareable, read-only data. So if the users should be able to modify the data, this is not the right location.

I would put it in /home/public or in /srv/public. Since the data is for all users, it may be placed in /home. If you plan to serve the data also on the network for other users I would place it somewhere in /srv.

To prevent that users may delete data from other users I would chmod 1770 the directory and chown it to root:data so that only users that are in the data group have access to this shared data.

Thanks for your reply. I will use /home/public! and have also a look at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/.