[aur-general] How to grant all users permission to write to a subdirectory of /opt?

[Justin Dray]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 at 04:05 Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 at gmail.com> 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.
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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