Folder Sharing Between Computer Users

[rbscairns]

Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome Classic

How do I set up a folder so that all uses ONLY of the computer can access the folder read only and I have full access to the folder?

[gleedadswell]

Hi rbscairns,

Do you know chmod? There are various guides/manuals to chmod online since it is a very old unix command. If by "full access" for yourself you mean read/write (i.e. not execute - this will depend on what kind of files they are)? If so then assuming you are the owner of the folder you should be able to use

chmod 644 *

in that folder to get what you want. But I'd read a chmod tutorial first if I were you.

I'm somewhat surprised the other users don't have read only access to the folder by default. What is the nature of this folder?

[HiImTye]

create a shared group

sudo groupadd sharedfolder

then add the list of users to the group

echo 'user1|user2|etc|...' | while IFS=\| read -r u; do sudo usermod -a -G sharedfolder "$u"; done

then change the group and permissions of the folder

sudo chown -R user:sharedfolder /path/to/folder
find /path/to/folder | while read -r f; do if [ -f "$f" ]; then sudo chmod 0640 "$f"; else sudo chmod 0750 "$f"; fi; done