Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

Roberth · 2013-05-19 10:16:34

Hello

I have two users on my system, and I need the other user to have read privileges to the my main users home folder, how do I do that?

teateawhy · 2013-05-19 12:12:33

I think that this is the default in archlinux in anyway. You can check the permissions with

ls -l /home

By default all users are in the users group and the home folders belong to the users group, too. If group-read is allowed (5.th field) other users can read.
If you really need to change this see

man chown
man chmod

Last edited by teateawhy (2013-05-19 14:56:58)

Roberth · 2013-05-19 12:25:40

No it's not default.

Both users are in the group "users", my user "roberth" and the group "users" are the owner of /home/roberth, according to dolphin /home/roberth, the group "users" is forbidden to both view and modify this folder. When I try to change it through dolphin, dolphin just stops responding.

/home/roberth permissions:

drwx------ 16 roberth users  4096 May 19 12:20 roberth

I have never really exactly understood the permission system in linux, specially how to manage it. So any help would be appreciated, I need this explained to me, reading docs, haven't helped much for me.

Mr.Elendig · 2013-05-19 12:28:01

This is a really bad idea, use a shared folder instead.

Or if you *really* want to do it, look into ACL, less chance of messing it up that way.

Roberth · 2013-05-19 12:31:08

Why is that a really bad idea? The second user, isn't really used by anyone, it's just created for samba, where samba is used by my sonos mediaplayer, which also is under my control.

Mr.Elendig · 2013-05-19 12:37:26

I would rather create a /home/music or similar than riscking making a typo and therefor sharing all your sensetive data over the network.

Roberth · 2013-05-19 12:47:22

Well I am the only user on the network.

teateawhy · 2013-05-19 14:55:57

chmod -R g+rx /home/robert

Last edited by teateawhy (2013-05-19 14:56:17)

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#1 2013-05-19 10:16:34

Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

#2 2013-05-19 12:12:33

Re: Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

#3 2013-05-19 12:25:40

Re: Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

#4 2013-05-19 12:28:01

Re: Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

#5 2013-05-19 12:31:08

Re: Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

#6 2013-05-19 12:37:26

Re: Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

#7 2013-05-19 12:47:22

Re: Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

#8 2013-05-19 14:55:57

Re: Give a user read privileges to another users homefolder

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