Hello everyone,


I have a directory (A) which is accessible (read and write) by user foo (non-root user), sometimes root user will create a sub-directory (B) under this directory. Then the user foo will not be able to access (read and write) the sub-directory (B) created by root user.

I am wondering whether there are any atomic ways to make the directory (A) and all its sub-directory (B) -- even B is created by root -- accessible (read and write) by a specific user foo (non-root user).

I am thinking about whether there are any ways to set directory A and all its sub-directory accessible by user foo, even if the sub-directories are created by root user and created later (dynamically) than the time when I assign the directory (A) accessible by user foo.


thanks in advance,
George

Check out the documentation on the following commands:

1. chmod
2. chown

As far as I know, if root creates a directory, it will be owned by root. You could create a script that does the following:

1. Create a directory.
2. Change the group/owner to foo.

Instead of just creating the directory as root, you could run this script.

I know that someone else will have a better way to do this but when I make stuff as root (like files or images), I always go and change the ownership to the non-root user/group. I do this in Konquerer using the submenu's properties items. -- Just a silly end-user way to do it.