Adding permission to a user.

[sixthwheel]

I added my wife as a user on the same computer. How do I give her permission (ha-ha, usually she's the one giving permissions around here) to access the Pictures folder and it's contents.

[chilly]

Right click on pictures folder,go down to properties and click permissions and modify

[sixthwheel]

Thanks Chilli, it's not working.
I do that , then I log in as Mary, and can't see the contents of the folder.

[muungwana]

if permissions are set correctly, she wont and shouldnt be able to access your home directory so the pictures folder should be out of our home directory.

The proper way to handle this is to create dedicated folder like "/mnt/share" and put all shared contents there. YOu can give the folder permissions of "777" and everybody will be able to access it, this simplifies things but it adds a bit of a security hole.

The proper way is to create a secured shared folder and give its ownership to "root:share" with "774" permissions and then add you and your wife accounts to group "share".

you can also set the folder to default all created contents to group "share" and you wont hit permission issues

This could be a good opportunity to find out how good you are with linux permissions

[chilly]

Just added a user,then i changed permissions,tried changing permissions as root and you are right,new user cannot see folder,must be some other way to do it,sorry i could not help

[sixthwheel]

Just added a user,then i changed permissions,tried changing permissions as root and you are right,new user cannot see folder,must be some other way to do it,sorry i could not help

No problem chilly, I'll try muungwana's suggestion.

[menotu]

Did you get your wifes permission to post this question? 

[growbag]

I would create a link in her home folder, or desktop to your pics folder.

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chmod -R 770 ~/Pictures # Makes ALL files and sub-directories in Pictures read/writeable to user and group
sudo ln -s ~/Pictures /home/mywife/Hubbies-Pics # Make a link to my pics folder in my wife's home folder
groups # Show a list of all the groups I am a member of, [b]mygroupname[/b] will be the first one, just to make sure
sudo groupmems --group mygroupname --add mywifesusername # Add my wife's username to my group

Of course you will have to change the above info to suit, but that should make the folder available and read/write to her.

You could make it simpler by chmodding ~/Pictures to 777 and skipping the groups stuff, but that would make it read/write to everyone, although it shouldn't really matter if your home folder is set to 700 as nobody else (apart from root) will be able to enter your home folder unless you give them the link.