how to handle new wife's earnings.

[Klaus Dahlke]

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 04:24, Roland Roberts wrote:
> >>>>> "waxmop" == waxmop  <waxmop@gtcinternet.com> writes:
> 
>     waxmop> 1.  I give her a login id on the linux box and she starts
>     waxmop>     up her own GnuCash account.  I later create a 3rd
>     waxmop>     account tree that merges mine and hers into one
>     waxmop>     "family account".
> 
> I do something akin to this, but....
> 
> My wife has an account on my Linux machine.  She logs in from her Mac
> (running MacOS X) using VNC.  The GnuCash files are in one of my
> subdirectories which has group access set to 2770 (u+rwx,g+rwxs) and
> the file permission on gnucash.data initially set to 660.  It will get
> mangled based on the umask and probably come out 0640 or 0660 after
> writing (if your umask is 022 like mine).  The group ownership of the
> directory is is one in which we are both members.  There is a symlink
> >from one of her subdirectories point to my gnucash.data directory;
> that's just cosmetic so it has the same path from her home directory
> as it does from mine.
> 
> This arrangement works well for us.  Only one at a time can be
> accessing the file, but we are not restricted to sitting in front of a
> particular machine (used to be Quicken on her Mac which meant I
> couldn't use it if she had anything else to do...).
> 

I would do the same as Roland: new user = new account. If users have to
share files like calendar, addressbook or gnucash, use either symbolic
links with the right permissions or use a database (also for gnucash,
might be a little bit fiddleing around in the beginning).

Cheers,
Klaus