Re: "safe" place to put a common "download" directory?

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:19:54 GMT,
Noozer <dont.spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to create a directory that is read/writeable by all my Linux users.

What would be the 'correct' location for such a directory on a Linux system?

/downloads

/usr/share/downloads

/var/downloads

If it's your system, it's your call.

'/' and '/usr/share' may be mounted readonly on some systems.
Considering the nature of the beast, I'd go with
'/{home,Users}/downloads' and 'man chmod'. Iirc, if you set the
sticky bit on the directory, User1 and User2 can both write to the
directory, but can't delete the other's files. I'm assuming '/home'
or '/Users' exist and are on a separate partition from '/var'. You
don't want to fill var's partition.

If you want to go with '/var/downloads', I'd use it as a mount pt. for
its own partition.

I'd also recommend you make it group writable and make everyone a
member of the group so you can disallow people write access if they
abuse it. (You could also use quotas, or preferably both.)

JMTC,

Michael C.
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be, but the way they actually are. - Robert J. Ringer
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