[CoLoCo] brainstorms Re: permission question

[Neal McBurnett]

Here is a related brainstorm:

idea #3916: Easy file sharing between local users
 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3916/

So you're not alone, Jim.  And it is a hard problem.

See also the other top-rated brainstorms at

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Intrepid/Brainstorm:

Including:

idea #3865: Canonical should offer a total migration+support service for schools
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3865/

idea #5390: Offer to create a separate /home partition and use
existing ones
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5390/

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:47:40AM -0600, Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
> By default, most modern systems put each user in its own group and sets
> home directory permissions so only you can see your files.
> 
> Much more secure that way.
> 
> Do you know ahead of time that you want share a particular file, or is
> an "on the fly" sort of thing?
> 
> >         On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:28:31AM -0600, Jim Hutchinson
> >         wrote:
> >         > They say a little knowledge is dangerous. I think I'm
> >         finding out
> >         > how true that is. I was logged in as one kid trying to open
> >         a file
> >         > in the others home directory. It wasn't working and in my
> >         experience
> >         > you can usually open files in others /home. That seems to be
> >         the
> 
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