Sharing directories across the LAN

[Derek Broughton]

Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:35:17 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> [Snip]
>> The problem I'm running into is with making all files modifiable by both
>> users.  If the folder has the guid bit set, and we're both in the group,
>> then all files get created with the same group - so far so good. 
>> However, by default files are generally not created with group write
>> permission, and I don't really want to change that globally.
> 
> This really is how you do this usually.  You just make the directory you
> want to share SGID to the group that you are both in.  Then you make sure
> that your umasks are both set with group write Ok.

I think, probably, my real problem has been an unreasonable fear of changing
the umask :-)

You're right - since homedirs generally have a group that's unique to the
user, setting the umask to make files group-writeable by default shouldn't
be an issue.

Thanks
-- 
derek