Craig Box wrote:
Gun Caundle wrote:
I am trying to create a directory in my 'home' directory with my user login. However I can only create a directory as a root user and thus can't use it with my user login. I can use the 'gun' directory in 'home' with my user login. Any help would be appreciated.
As you can see, when you created the 'adelle' directory you created it as the root user, because a user cannot write to /home.
What I think you really wanted to do was create an adelle user, along with a home directory.
As root, remove the directory you created, and run 'adduser adelle'; this might ask you some questions, if it doesn't you will need to run 'passwd adelle' to set up a password for the account. If you want her to be able to use Samba too, use 'smbpasswd -a adelle' to add her a Samba account.
Then, there will be an adelle directory which is owned by adelle; if you want to be able to write to that as gun, you can either set it so anyone can write, or you can add yourself to the 'adelle' group.
(I can't remember the Fedora syntax off the top of my head, but start with 'man groupadd'.
Craig
If you add yourself to the adelle group or another common group that you could create for the purpose of sharing files. You still probably won't be able to write adelle's files because usually the group write permission is off by default. You can fix this with the umask setting, see man umask. If you want bidirectional writeable file sharing then you need to add the users to each others groups. If this is a pain because you have many users then you could create a separate group for this purpose. You would also have to set the main group for each user to be this group and change the umask. g -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz