Multiple users accessing a directory - SOLVED

[bushyiii]

I have a family directory for recipes, there are multiple accounts on my desktop. Is there a suggested way to allow everyone access to this directory, the sub-directories and its files?

I expect it's somethings like assigning each person to a group but at this point I don't know anything about group and giving group access to the above. Any help in pointing me to some resource is appreciated.

[pit38]

Hi
Create a group such as 'recipes', assign members to it and then as the proprietary of the directory and sub, change the group owner ship, assign the access rights and transfer this change to all objects below.
Can be done inside the terminal or through the gui : contextual menu of the main directory, permissions tab, don't forget the small box at the bottom so that the change applies to all files below.

[rene]

Yes, the above, which is in practical terms to say

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$ sudo addgroup recipes
$ sudo adduser dad recipes
$ sudo adduser mom recipes
[ ... ]
$ sudo chown -R :recipes /the/recipe/directory
$ sudo chmod -R g+rwx /the/recipe/directory

A warning is that if /the/recipe/direcrtory is in e.g. /home/dad that as of Mint 21 private home-directories would still interfere. Best solution is to not have /the/recipe/directory in /home/dad but e.g. /mnt or something.

[bushyiii]

Thanks to all this is a perfect solution. I'll mark as solved.