Hi Steve,
> I want a directory for files shared between users on the same machine
> (music, photos etc.). Is there a convention for where that should be?
No. I use /home so users files are still under /home even if they're
shared, e.g. /home/joint, or /home/lab.
> Should I be using NFS (bear in mind it's all on one machine), or is it
> easiest just to make a directory and assign users to a group?
The latter. If you set the group ID bit on the directory then items
created in the directory will inherit the same group, and
sub-directories will also initially have the bit set.
$ id
uid=1000(ralph) gid=1000(ralph) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),
25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),100(users),
107(lpadmin),108(scanner),109(admin),1000(ralph),1002(geneweb)
$ mkdir shared
$ ls -ld shared
drwxr-xr-x 2 ralph ralph 4096 2006-09-17 11:03 shared
$ chgrp users shared
$ chmod g+sw shared
$ ls -ld shared
drwxrwsr-x 2 ralph users 4096 2006-09-17 11:03 shared
$ cd shared
$ touch foo; mkdir bar
$ ls -la
total 16
drwxrwsr-x 3 ralph users 4096 2006-09-17 11:04 .
drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 8192 2006-09-17 11:04 ..
drwxr-sr-x 2 ralph users 4096 2006-09-17 11:04 bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 ralph users 0 2006-09-17 11:04 foo
$
Cheers,
Ralph.
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