Feature changed by: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) Feature #310832, revision 2 Title: add write permission to users on the fstab options - openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Description: Hello, It's more and more frequent to have a big partition shared by users for large data (video...).   Now one have to allow writing on these partitions with going root and making chown :users <mount point> chmod g+w <mount point>   It should be a good idea to add the option in the partitionner to make this. One more option "allow writing by users", for example. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310832

Feature changed by: Tim Edwards (tk83) Feature #310832, revision 5 Title: add write permission to users on the fstab options openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Product Manager: openfate dummy manager (openfate-manager-dummy) Project Manager: openfate dummy manager (openfate-manager-dummy) Engineering Manager: openfate dummy manager (openfate-manager-dummy) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello, It's more and more frequent to have a big partition shared by users for large data (video...). Now one have to allow writing on these partitions with going root and making chown :users <mount point> chmod g+w <mount point> It should be a good idea to add the option in the partitionner to make this. One more option "allow writing by users", for example. + Discussion: + #1: Tim Edwards (tk83) (2010-11-25 11:50:26) + This is exactly what ACLs were created for. POSIX ACLs and have been + fully supported on Linux for years now. + What we need is a GUI, perhaps a YAST module that can setup a directory + as 'shared'. Behind the scenes all it would need to do is setup a + 'default ACL' that grants rwx permissions on directories to the 'users' + group, and only rw on files of course. This would only need to be done + once since it's a default ACL - newly created files and sub-directories + would inherit this ACL. + It would be simple for the YAST module to be able to 'unshare' this + directory too - just remove the ACL. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310832

Feature changed by: Rajko Matovic (rajko_m) Feature #310832, revision 7 Title: Simple access permission setup for shared partitions or disks - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.4: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello, It's more and more frequent to have a big partition shared by users for large data (video...). Now one have to allow writing on these partitions with going root and making chown :users <mount point> chmod g+w <mount point> It should be a good idea to add the option in the partitionner to make this. One more option "allow writing by users", for example. Discussion: #1: Tim Edwards (tk83) (2010-11-25 11:50:26) This is exactly what ACLs were created for. POSIX ACLs and have been fully supported on Linux for years now. What we need is a GUI, perhaps a YAST module that can setup a directory as 'shared'. Behind the scenes all it would need to do is setup a 'default ACL' that grants rwx permissions on directories to the 'users' group, and only rw on files of course. This would only need to be done once since it's a default ACL - newly created files and sub-directories would inherit this ACL. It would be simple for the YAST module to be able to 'unshare' this directory too - just remove the ACL. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310832