On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 at 04:05 Storm Dragon wrote:

Howdy, I'm working on a package. The package will need to download sounds to a subdirectory of itself. I have placed the package in /opt. The package is /opt/tintin-alteraeon. It downloads the msp sounds from the Alter Aeon mud as it encounters them. But my current setup gives me, for example: sounds/spell//tensor.opus: Permission denied So, how can I give normal users permission to write to the sounds directory? Also, is that a bad thing to do? If so, I'll have to come up with a different way to handle sounds. -- Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 Twitter and Facebook are so ... yesteryear. Get your 2MB Social account TODAY! http://2mb.social/main/register The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones. "As the moon is rising, give us the sign. Now let us rise up in awe, rock 'n' roll angels bring thy hard rock hallelujah, demons and angels all in one have arrived." Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah

Ideally you would either download the files beforehand, or per-user. But if you want a shared folder, create a group for your application, and put in the post_install a message to add users who want to use the application to that group. There is a built in games group that you could probably just use for this? If you set the directory to g+s it will inherit group ownership when a user creates a new file; but you need ACLs to inherit actual group write permissions, and 99% of systems will have a umask of 022; so no group writes. - Justin