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This may be a repeat question, but I wasn't able to answer this specific question anywhere else. My school uses Ubuntu to run their server. My friends and I have accounts on the server, but aren't granted sudo access. All we want to do is have a shared folder.

I thought of adding my friends' accounts to a group and changing the group of the folder to that group, but I couldn't do that without sudo access. I tried chmod a+rwx, but my friend still couldn't cd into it. Is there any way to do this easily? Is there anything I'm missing?

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  • Your home directory probably lacks execute permissions for other users, so they can't enter it (or any subdirectory within). Use /tmp if you want a common area.
    – muru
    Jan 26, 2016 at 22:13
  • Thank you for the response. Is it a terrible idea for me to make my folder readable instead?
    – JacKeown
    Jan 26, 2016 at 22:23
  • I doubt you can. Changing your home directory's permissions would need write access to its parent directory, which I doubt you have.
    – muru
    Jan 26, 2016 at 22:24
  • I think a symlink would be better, no? Create a directory in /tmp, create links to that directory in each user's home folder.
    – user323419
    Jan 26, 2016 at 22:30
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    Doesn't everything in /tmp get deleted periodically though?
    – JacKeown
    Jan 26, 2016 at 22:32

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