Shared files

[Colin Law]

On 7 May 2011 11:50, Roy Smith <rasmith1959 at live.com> wrote:
> Hi!  I have a situation that I'd like to get some suggestions about.
> I'm setting up Ubuntu with a total of 5 user accounts (including
> myself).  I also have around 20GB of music, video and photo files that I
> would like each account to have access to.  Instead of each user account
> having the same files in their user folder, I've though about setting up
> a separate folder that everyone can access.  So what would be the best
> security settings as far as Owner, Group and permissions would be to
> allow everyone access to these files?

You could set up a group and add all the users to that group, then
give the group read only access (if that is what you want) to the
shared folder.  Keep yourself as owner with read/write permissions.

Colin