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Where on a Linux file system should someone put media intended to be accessible by all user accounts?
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Mar 15, 20267978 viewsConfidence Score0%
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If I have photos, mp3s, books and other miscellaneous stuff that I want all users to able to access from a common directory, where on a Linux file system should I put that directory? In /usr/share, or just in /usr, or create a new top-level directory instead?
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I usually put this in , I create a unix group that owns it with a setgid bit. As root, or using sudo: Then I put each user that needs to access these data in the group. You could also use ACLs to manage each user's right for the directory. You could…
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