{"id":12414,"date":"2019-03-26T23:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=12414"},"modified":"2019-03-26T23:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T23:16:47","slug":"how-to-create-a-shared-directory-for-all-users-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/how-to-create-a-shared-directory-for-all-users-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Shared Directory for All Users in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a system administrator, you may have a certain directory that you want to give read\/write access to every user on a Linux server. In this guide, we will review how to enable write access to all users on a particular directory (shared directory) in Linux.<\/p>\n

This calls for setting the appropriate access permissions, and the most effective as well as reliable method to allocating a common group for all the users who will share or have write access to the specific directory.<\/p>\n

So, start by creating the directory and common group in case it doesn\u2019t already exist on the system as follows:<\/p>\n

$ sudo mkdir -p \/var\/www\/reports\/\r\n$ sudo groupadd project \r\n<\/pre>\n
Then add an existing user who will have write access to the directory:\u00a0\/var\/www\/reports\/<\/strong>\u00a0to the group project as below.<\/p>\n
$ sudo usermod -a -G project tecmint \r\n<\/pre>\n
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\"Create<\/a><\/p>\n
Create Common Directory Group<\/p>\n
The flags and arguments used in the above command are:<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. -a<\/code>\u00a0\u2013 which adds the user to the supplementary group.<\/li>\n
  2. -G<\/code>\u00a0\u2013 specifies the group name.<\/li>\n
  3. project<\/code>\u00a0\u2013 group name.<\/li>\n
  4. tecmint<\/code>\u00a0\u2013 existing username.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Afterwards, proceed to configure the appropriate permissions on the directory, where the option\u00a0-R<\/code>\u00a0enables recursive operations into subdirectories:<\/p>\n
    $ sudo chgrp -R project \/var\/www\/reports\/\r\n$ sudo chmod -R 2775 \/var\/www\/reports\/\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Explaining the permissions\u00a02775<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0chmod<\/strong>\u00a0command above:<\/p>\n
      \n
    1. 2<\/code>\u00a0\u2013 turns on the\u00a0setGID<\/strong>\u00a0bit, implying\u2013newly created subfiles inherit the same group as the directory, and newly created subdirectories inherit the set GID bit of the parent directory.<\/li>\n
    2. 7<\/code>\u00a0\u2013 gives\u00a0rwx<\/strong>\u00a0permissions for owner.<\/li>\n
    3. 7<\/code>\u00a0\u2013 gives\u00a0rwx<\/strong>\u00a0permissions for group.<\/li>\n
    4. 5<\/code>\u00a0\u2013 gives\u00a0rx<\/strong>\u00a0permissions for others.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      You can create more system users and add them to the directory group as follows:<\/p>\n
      $ sudo useradd -m -c \"Aaron Kili\" -s\/bin\/bash -G project aaronkilik\r\n$ sudo useradd -m -c \"John Doo\" -s\/bin\/bash -G project john\r\n$ sudo useradd -m -c \"Ravi Saive\" -s\/bin\/bash -G project ravi\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Then create subdirectories where the new users above will store their project reports:<\/p>\n
      $ sudo mkdir -p \/var\/www\/reports\/aaronkilik_reports\r\n$ sudo mkdir -p \/var\/www\/reports\/johndoo_reports\r\n$ sudo mkdir -p \/var\/www\/reports\/ravi_reports\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Now you can create files\/folders and share with other users on the same group.<\/p>\n
      That\u2019s it! In this tutorial, we reviewed how to enable write access to all users on a particular directory. To understand more about users\/groups in Linux, read\u00a0How to Manage Users\/Groups File Permissions and Attributes<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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      As a system administrator, you may have a certain directory that you want to give read\/write access to every user on a Linux server. In this guide, we will review how to enable write access to all users on a particular directory (shared directory) in Linux. This calls for setting the appropriate access permissions, and … <\/p>\n
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