Add shareable folder for allSeedBoxUsers

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#1

I want to add shareable folder with all users with read / write permissions.
OS: UBUNTU 16.04 Server
I tried this guide but when I try to go into this folder using seedBoxUser account created using createSeedboxUser, I got result:

cd /home/public
*** forbidden path: /home/public/

Folder permissions (/home/public):

drwxrwsr-x owner_name ALL_USR_GROUP_NAME

cat /etc/group | grep “ALL_USR_GROUP_NAME”

ALL_USR_GROUP_NAME:x:INT:usr1,usr2,usr3,…

I when this will work I want to add sym link from /home/public to

USR_HOME_DIR/torrents/SHARED_FOLDER

https://joshua14.homelinux.org/blog/?p=1383

#2

Not sure if this is relevant or not but your username “seedBoxUser” needs to be all lowercase.

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#3

I know. All users have lowercase names its just an example user name.

#4

This sounds like a limited shell issue. go look at /etc/lshell.conf

#5

the only way i can think of this is syslinks but this can be really bad if one person deletes it then nobody can use it.

#6

The best way to do it is to mount shareable dir using mount --bind
Keep in mind that all mounts disappear after shutdown. To remount it you can:

  1. add this script to execute at startup.
  2. add mounts to /etc/fstab
    Here is my script to do it:
    https://gist.github.com/xerrni/709a92735b76fb52367058ce903f63cc

Just edit user list, source dir, destination dir, group (optional).