eclipse group

[anjanesh]

I've installed eclipse and android manually at /opt.
How do I make /opt/android writable by eclipse ? I don't want to chmod it to 777.
Specifically I need to know the group eclipse belongs to.

[noah++]

I am not sure whether it's the application's group ID or the user's that's effective here. Anyway, to find out Eclipse's group, just do an ls -l /opt/eclipse, replacing /opt/eclipse with the right path to the Eclipse binary if that's not it.

[GregBrannon]

Did you have to install Eclipse at that location? Rather than futz around with system permissions, why not just install Eclipse to a folder off your home directory? Eclipse doesn't care where it is, and it would make your programming environment much simpler and easier to manage.

[anjanesh]

Yes. Eclipse is at /opt/eclipse and android at /opt/android

Rather than futz around with system permissions, why not just install Eclipse to a folder off your home directory?

Im syncing /home/username to my S3 account. I want /home/username to be only data and not programs.

For now I got it writable by my username, but I would prefer it writable by the group like www-data for apache. But since this is a desktop, I guess this is ok ?
sudo chgrp -R username android/
chmod -R g+w android/