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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] local shared directory
From:       Neil Bothwick <neil () digimed ! co ! uk>
Date:       2016-04-23 14:56:10
Message-ID: 20160423155610.48867b0c () digimed ! co ! uk
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:42:56 +0200, hw wrote:

> > I've done this with ACLs in the past, which is why I suggested it, but
> > it's a pain to set up if you haven't used them before. Alan's
> > suggestion of using inotify is probably simplest. Install incrond and
> > put something like this in a file in /etc/incron.d
> >
> > /shared/dir IN_CREATE,IN_MODIFY chmod g+w $#

That should actually be $@/$#

> PS: How about subdirectories?  The users sharing the directory can 
> create and delete them as well, and files within them; yet incron 
> ignores what happens in subdirectories.

That's a prpblem, maybe ACLs would be more suitable after all.

> Using 'chmod -R g+w $#' isn't very appealing, and how safely does it 
> handle file names?

What is unappealing about it? I've never had any problem with file names,
but I don't use odd ones. You could quote the $@/$# just in case,
although if there's no shell expansion taking place it shouldn't be
necessary.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Hyperbole is absolutely the worst mistake you can possibly make

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