multiple users sharing same /home?

[emamarro]

Hi! have a question may be sounds strange but really need this!
Need to let different users share same data and contents on a pc.
I don't mean permissions to write,read,execute on other's /home
They have to share same space,settings,mail,etc.etc
Is there a way to get this?
thank a lot for help
Ciao
Emanuele

[GNU-Fan]

Theoretically, you would alter the string in the file /etc/passwd.
But still there might be some files that can only be accessed by a particular user.

If several users do use the same home dir, and each of them can access any file from the other users, what would be the point of having different users in the first place?

[Rubberman]

Yes, you can do this. However, you need to do a couple of things.

1. Make sure they are members of the same primary group.
2. Edit their .bash_profile to set their umask to g=rwx. IE, the command should be umask g=rwx which will make it so that any file and/or directories any of these users create should be fully accessible and modifiable by any of the others. You can also use the command umask 0002 which will accomplish the same thing, just more cryptically.