Sharing directories across the LAN

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> 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 everyone.  This is working fine for me, now.
-- 
derek