Sharing Files On Unix
10 Jan 2013Here’s a task I’ve had to do many times and I’m always looking one or two (or all) of the commands up on the interwebz.
How to setup file sharing between two unix users.
$ groupadd new_group
# add both users to the new group
$ sudouseradd -G new_group user1
$ sudouseradd -G new_group user2
# update the folder's group to be the new_group and make it sticky
$ chgrp -R new_group folder_to_share
$ chmod g+w folder_to_share
$ chmod g+s folder_to_share
# verify the umask setting for the user ensures group files are readable (this is normally the default)