Re: Sharing attempt: Access denied to path in Ubuntu 8.04

["Robert Paskowitz" <rpaskowitz confucius ca>]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Todd Slater <dontodd gmail com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up shared photos and database with my wife. Based on
>  recommendations I read in the archives, I created a new group (fspot)
>  and added both myself and my wife to the group. I changed the group on
>  the Photos folder and the photos.db file to fspot.
>
>  I started f-spot as my wife with `f-spot -p /home/todd/Photos` and it
>  would let me pick a folder to import--even the Photos folder in my
>  home directory. When I started it (again as my wife) with `f-spot -p
>  /home/todd/Photos -b /home/todd/.gnome2/f-spot` it gave the error that
>  the access to the photos.db folder was denied. The specific output is
>  below.
>
>  What do I need to set the permissions to to get sharing to work?
>

Did you only change the group and permissions on the photos.db file,
or also on the .gnome2/f-spot directory? From the looks of the error
you need at least g+rx and the group you created set on it.

-Rob