I am working with Ubuntu and I have a jar file in this folder /export/home/davidAnd I am logged in machineB as david user.Some other user is also logged in that same machine. And I want other user to copy the above jar file from my location.But somehow they are not able to do that as they are getting permission denied. Is there any way I can add some permission on that jar file or on my folder so that anybody can copy the files from that folder?Update:-Below is the result I got - david@machineB:~$ groups daviddavid : uucpotheruser@machineB:~$ groups otheruserotheruser : appdavid@machineB:~$ ls -l foo.jar-rw-r--r-- 1 david uucp 6543346 2014-03-07 18:27 foo.jardavid@machineB:~$ ls -ld $(echo /home/david/foo.jar | sed -r ':a; s#(.*)/[^/]*$#\1#;p;ta')drwxr-xr-x 22 root   root 4096 2014-05-04 08:04 /homedrwx------  4 david uucp 4096 2014-03-07 18:36 /home/david
Allow other user to copy the files from my folder?
permissions;users
Well, for some strange reason, your $HOME directory is only accessible to you. This is not the default on any system I am familiar with, you or your sysadmin have probably set it up this way.Anyway, all you need to do is give everyone read/execute access to your $HOME. This is the norm on most multi-user systems to allow people to share their work. Just run this command:chmod a+rx ~/This will set the permissions of your home to rwxr-xr-x and allow anyone to copy files from your $HOME. 