FAQs

[Jon Lapham]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> A couple comments....
> 
> Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:
> 
> 
>>Q: Can multiple people access the same datafile in GnuCash?
>>A: No, only 1 person may "work on" a GnuCash datafile at any given
>>time. In fact, when the second person tries to open the file, they
>>will see a worning message that the file is already being accessed.
> 
> This is a bit confusing -- you can have multiple people who share a
> datafile.  True, you cannot have multiple people using the data at the
> same time, but they can serialize their access to the data file.  Both
> people must have read/write access to the directory (to read the other's
> created files, and to create new files).

Ah yes.  I see.

> 
> One way to set this up is by creating a user group and setting the
> data directory to be owned by the shared group and set to mode 2775.
> The '2' makes the directory setgid which copies the permissions to all
> files.
> 

Okay, I made all your changes.  Thanks.

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