Digikam, F-Spot, whatever - sharing photos and tags between accounts/machines?

[Toby Dickenson]

M. Fioretti wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 11:14:06 AM +0200, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
>  
>> Is any of photo management apps able to handle... a few users (a few
>> accounts on the same machine, maybe also a few machines with NFS or
>> samba mounted directories) share the same photo set, tag/label it
>> cooperatively etc... I do not mean any "huge" case. Just a scenario
>> where everybody in the family has own account on Linux desktop, and
>> sometimes also logs from laptop...

I am very pleased using Digikam with multiple user accounts on one machine,
with a shared directory for photos and tags. I expect using a second
machine with NFS should work too.

The only extra configuration needed here is file permissions: Create a group
for "photos" (or maybe you already have a "family" group), and set the
group sticky bit on the photos directory. You need to make sure that
digikam runs with 002 umask.... If you have one user account per family
member then I suggest it would be best to change the default umask
(in /etc/profile) to 002.