Re: Syncthing permissions question

Thank you so much for the help! I got it working I didn't realize that
usermod was backwards and that I need to reboot / start a new login to
see the effects.

On 10/27/22 3:10 AM, Zé Loff wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 10:38:04PM -0400, Jag Talon wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to OpenBSD and I'm unfamiliar with permissions in general so I'm a
>> little lost. I installed syncthing, and it creates the default folder in
>> /var/syncthing/Sync which is owned by _syncthing and has the group
>> _syncthing.
>>
>> I'm able to read the contents of the directory, but I'm unable to write into
>> them. I tried adding myself to the _syncthing group by doing:
>>
>> usermod -G jag _syncthing
>
> This must be the other way round: usermod -G <group> <username>
> Don't forget that you'll need a new login to notice the effects of this.
>
>> But it seems that I'm still unable to write to the directory. I know I can
>> change the ownership of the files by using chmod -R, but new files will
>> still have the same _syncthing user and group and it seems off to keep
>> changing permissions of the files.
>>
>> How do I enable the user `jag` to read and write to things owned by the
>> daemon `_syncthing`?
>>
>> Thank you so much!
>>
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