Share GnuCash files between users?

Susan Stewart meltedtwix at binaryredneck.net
Sun Jul 11 12:00:47 EDT 2004


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Dan Iseminger wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Is it possible with the latest version of GnuCash to share data between
| users?  e.g.  My wife and I have our own logins in Linux, but we hold
most
| bank accounts in common.  Can we log in as ourselves and access the
same data?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Dan

Yep.  On my box we have the gnucash files (with permissions 770) in a
shared directory.  The group they belong to includes my husband and I,
but no one else.

Once you move your .gnucash/ directory to another directory, you will
each have to manually tell gnucash where to find the files the first
time you run it.  After that, it should behave as it always has.  (One
caveat: your gnucash files should only be open in one instance at any
given time.  If you each have a copy open, then your changes will be
lost when your wife saves, or vice versa.)

Susan

P.S. -- is this worth adding to the wiki if it's not already there?
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