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Configure permissions to allow group collaboration

Configure permissions to allow group collaboration

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Configure permissions to allow group collaboration

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- [Instructor] If we have a folder where we want collaboration to happen, the permissions can get tricky. As users create documents, they become the owners. And depending on the permission setup, others may not have access to edit them. We can resolve this somewhat by setting very open permissions on all the files as they're created. But, there's a better way. We can configure a folder to give files created inside of it the same group designation as the parent folder, making sure that anyone editing files in the folder, as long as they have access to it, can work on the same files without having specifically setup the group permissions for every file. I'll create a folder here at the root of my drive called Shared with mkdir shared, and I'll set the group on it to finance with chgroup finance shared. I'll set the permissions for the group so group members can write to the folder with chmod group plus write and shared. Now we need to find a few users that are in our finance group. So…

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