Make "Home/Download" folder the same for all users

[shabuboy]

Hello,

Is it possible to set the "home/download" folder to be the same for all users? If so, how? Did a few internet searches and no luck. At least nothing in plain English I could understand

Would like to make it a default for any future users.

[BBQdave]

Is it possible to set the "home/download" folder to be the same for all users?

If you have Ubuntu Unity, might be better to use the Public folder across accounts. Usually, Linux distros are set with individual accounts, with the users deciding what to share.

I would think the Home directory would become cluttered and confusing, if shared by multiply users.

[shabuboy]

hmmm... let me rephrase the question... How can I make a folder, be the same for all users? It could be downloads, or music, or videos. I do not want home to be the same. Only one of the folders in home.

[BBQdave]

Use Ubuntu's Public Folder might be of interest to you

[shabuboy]

I did check it already. However, what I found for it is only "sharing". Users will have to browse network/computername to select the share dir. That is not what I am looking for.

I want the following:
- User X logs in
- Creates a video in his /home/video folder
- Logouts

- User Y logs in
- Goes to his /home/video folder and can also see (RW) video from User X

[heir4c]

You can create a separate partition for all kind of data and than change the settings to put the downloaded files in that DATA partition instead of /home/username/Downloads. (Like in FireFox the default is)
Even if you have other versions of Ubuntu on or a different Linux distro on that disk, I think you can use that partition to set the downloaded files on.
I will try it here out at my computer.

Edit: It will work if the partition mount automatic when you boot up.
Otherwise you can create a folder and give rights to a new group and make the users member of that group, so than they can access the partition.
(If you install gnome-system-tools you can make groups and also make all users member of that group in a graphical environment.)

[shabuboy]

So lets see if I get this straight...
- Create a group and add users to it. So far so good.
- Create a folder somewhere and make the owners the new group. Any recommendations? I was thinking perhaps "/media/share/downloads" or "/home/public/downloads". So far ok.

And now, how do I make current and future users be able to log into Ubuntu, go to Home folder, click on downloads and open one of the locations mentioned above? I guess there is got to be a default config somewhere to point to another location besides $HOME.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

the guest user will not have have access to this folder, no idea i have tried to give it write access to shared content before never figured it out
this should get you close to what you want to do

sudo mkdir /usr/local/Downloads
sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/Downloads
sudo mv /home/*/Downloads/* /usr/local/Downloads
sudo chown -R root:root /usr/local/Downloads/*
sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/local/Downloads/*
sudo rmdir /home/*/Downloads
sudo ln -s /usr/local/Downloads /home/*/Downloads

only issues that you will have is new files being own by different users
you could add a script to lightdm's session start/exit
edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and add this line

session-cleanup-script=sh -c 'chown -R root:root /usr/local/Downloads/* & chmod 777 /usr/local/Downloads/* &'

if you created a fat32 partition for the downloads yu would not hve any need for th chmod/chown stuff

[heir4c]

You can rightclick on the folder/directory and make a link and place it in the home folder of the user.

(For creating accounts/groups in graphical way you can install gnome-system-tools)

[shabuboy]

hmmm, those only apply to existing users, what about future users who do not have a home folder yet?

Found something, exactly what I want, However, cannot find the setting for the umask 022.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/18103...pictures-templ