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warvariuc
Asked: 2015-06-08 21:39:53 +0800 CST

Public folder in an encrypted home directory?

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I have encrypted home directory, which has drwx------ permissions after mounting.

Is there a possibility to have Public directory inside it which is accessible by other users?

As I understand, it's not possible to have such directory inside $HOME without changing the parent directory permissions as well.

I guess the way is to create the folder in some other place (e.g. /home/shared/), make me the owner, give the appropriate permissions to other users and create a symlink from my home directory to it?

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  1. Best Answer

    I needed the public directory so that Nginx could access files in my project directories. This solution came to me today:

    sudo chmod 750 /home/vic
sudo adduser www-data vic

    So I gave r-x access to my home directory to the user group to which my user belongs to. Then I added Nginx user to my group.

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