How to give write access to other users' directory to an user ?

[Deepu Chakravarty]

I want to give write access of one user's directory to another user. The user then have right to write/copy any file to that users directory.

[Karthik S S]

Create a group by name common and add these two users as the members. To the directory for which you want to give common access to these users change the permissions as,

chgrp common dir_name
chmod 775 dir_name

Whenever the other user wants to write to this directory he/she has to switch to the group first using,

newgrp common

Or you can also use sudo to delicate permissions,

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.6.7p5/

-Karthik S S

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Suppouse user1 is in the group1 and user2 in group2 and access to user1 directory to be given to user2 Then

1. #usermod -G group1 user2
2. #chmod 755 dir_name (directory of user1)
3. user2 can use newgrp to change the user and access the directory.

sks

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Suppose user1 is in the group1 and user2 in group2 and access to user1 directory to be given to user2 Then

1. #usermod -G group1 user2
2. #chmod 755 dir_name (directory of user1)
3. user2 can use newgrp to change the user and access the directory.

sks

[Anil C. Sedha]

Do the following

in /etc/group file add the following subsituting usera & userb with your user's id.

sample::555:usera,userb

In the user's directory

/home/usera/test
if test is the directory you want to give permission on,

chown -R usera:sample /home/usera/test
chmod -R 774 /home/usera/test

this will enable userb to read,write & execute anything in usera's home directory.

Pls let us know if this helps.

Regards,
Anil