I have multiple users on my home desktop. I am content with most of the default user directories, however I would like to make one change.
I would like to setup a common directory for Music (ie /home/common/Music/
) that is writable to all users and Nautilus/Dolphin/whatever recognizes as the user's Music directory.
I know that it would involve changing the xdg user directory setup, but everything I see points that it is relative to the user's $HOME
. Is there a way I can specify an absolute path?
Best Answer
Yes to do what you need you simply need to change the xdg configuration for each existing user like so:
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
And to make this something available to all users created simply edit this:
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
To modify the permissions, this bit is tricky because you need to make sure that all files created in these directories remain editable by everyone. I found this interesting guide on the subject:
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-rg-en-7.2/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html
Which suggests doing the following to make the permissions sticky as well as adding the users all to a common group:
You may want to change the umask setting to allow all files created to be modifiable by the anyone in the users group in that directory, edit
/etc/profile
and go to the bottom and changeumask 022
toumask 002
This is considered secure since all users have their own primary user and really only effects shared directories like this one you want to make.Let us know if it works well enough.