New user automount of RAID in ~/data, group rights in folder?

Hello,
for a group of friends, I'm setting up a server for SFTP, amongst other services. Each user gets an own partition on the RAID5 mounted in ~/privat, which I can update manually in fstab. I also want them to have access to the big shared partition under ~/data.
Is there a way to automate this mount when creating a user?
The second question is regarding the rights within the big partition. I want every user to be able to write on the partition and also read/copy the content of the other users. Shall I introduce a new group or can I use the group 'disk'? The wiki suggests not to use the group 'disk' with systemd.
Help would be very much appreciated

Thank you for the answer. I'm not used to getting answers on Arch Forum, so I didn't look right away.
It's not my intention to let them have access with disktools.
$ ls -l /dev/md0p14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 13 16. Mai 19:30 /dev/md0p14
The users have their own partition on the RAID which is their own and I will not mess with that, I just mount it to their ~/privat.
I want the privat partitions to be privat and the big partition to be public for all users. The users won't get an own section in the public folder.
Just to clarify whether I understood it correctly.
I make a group 'friends' and add every user to this group. Then I mount the big partition to e.g. /srv/friends and bind mount /srv/friends again to each users ~/data. Thus, when someone uploads something he can r/w his own data and read everything else, but how can I ensure that all written data gets a 755 or comparable rights? As long as the user is in the 'friends' group, he automatically sets the right permissions? Isn't it user:users rather than user:friends ?
I see the advantage of the group and user right management under Unices, but it's still quite confusing sometimes.
EDIT: So I have to
chown -R :friends /srv/friends
to ensure these rights?
EDIT2: I tried this approach and changed ownership from root:friends to me:friends and for testing to friend:friends. When 'root' or 'friend' is owner of the foldertree 'me' can't cp or mkdir within this tree. So I have to set 777 permissions and how do I guarantee al copied content gets the same permissions?
Last edited by mieLouk (2013-05-18 11:34:11)

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What specific apps are you having trouble with? For instance, I know that MS Office and Adobe CS5 for perfectly well for all users on my MBP.
This is a very long list. Let me give you some of it, and if you really need all of them, I'll add to the list later.
1Password 4
ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 plus On ONE add-on filters
Burn
calibre
DiskTracker
Dragon Dictate
Flv Crunch 1.5.0
GraphicConverter
Harmony Assistant
iBank
iSkysoft iMedia Converter Deluxe
MacX Video Converter Pro
QMidi
Screenium
Unison
WireTap Studio
Also, what troubleshooting steps have you taken so far?
Not much, since I have no idea where the problem is. I looked for some central repository of software serial numbers or activations, but didn't find one.

Is it possible to transfer data from a dead macbook pro to a new user account on another macbook pro?

I have killed my 2 months old mbp (water). I have an older mbp (2 years old) that I wish to transfer all data from my dead mbp to. I was hoping that I simply could create a new user on my old mbp and transfer all data to this account using the migration assistant and thereby re-create my dead mbp. Especially I wish to acces my contacts, mail settings and calendar, but would of course prefer to acces all files. I have a thing (do not know the right term) that can read the HD on the dead computer. It is now connected to my mbp, and I can acces data, but the migration assistant do not recognize it. Can someone please help me?
Thanks...

It's possible that the water caused your hard drive directory to be corrupted when the logic board shorted out. You may want to try repairing the now-external drive with Disk Utility's Repair Disk routine. If it reports making any repairs, run it repeatedly until it reports that the disk "appears OK". Then try Migration Assistant again.
If that fails, then perhaps the disk itself was damaged by the spill. You could go one step farther and try using data recovery software on the drive:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id= 1
http://download.cnet.com/VirtualLab-Data-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10298807.html
All three recovery utilities come in demo versions that will show you what the full version could recover before you have to pay for anything.
Good luck.

New user. Need to know where my email contacts are on my macbook pro and how I can make a group email address

New user. Email contacts imported to MacBook pro from PC - but I'm unable to call up entire contact list or to make a group emailing contact.

Assuming you are using Apple's Mail application, contacts are managed via the Contacts application, in your application folder. As for various addressing methods, including groups, maybe this:
Mail (Mountain Lion): Address messages - Support - Apple

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