Creating a shared directory
The next act in our scenario involves creating a shared directory that all the members of our marketing department can use. Now, this is another one of those areas that engenders a bit of controversy. Some people like to put shared directories in the root level of the filesystem, while others like to put shared directories in the /home directory. And, some people even have other preferences. But really, it's a matter of personal preference and/or company policy. Other than that, it really doesn't much matter where you put them. For our purposes, to make things simple, I'll just create the directory in the root level of the filesystem:
[donnie@localhost ~]$ cd / [donnie@localhost /]$ sudo mkdir marketing [sudo] password for donnie: [donnie@localhost /]$ ls -ld marketing drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Nov 13 15:32 marketing [donnie@localhost /]$
The new directory belongs to the root user. It has a permissions setting of 755, which permits read and execute access to everybody...
