[SOLVED] Where to put dosbox games to share them between users?

Hi everybody,
the subject pretty much says it all.
Where should I put my dosbox games to share the files between multiple users?
The file permissions are the problem. I guess, having user writable files outside of /home is not the best idea (isn't it?).
In addition: Highscores and config files need to writable to all users, but config files should not be shared between the users.
Any idea?
Regards,
float
Solved: I'm using UnionFS for most of the games. Highscores are placed in /opt/$pkgname. Thank you for your ansers!
Last edited by float (2013-02-14 20:23:45)

@ezzetabi: That is great for storing locally only the changes. Is useful for saving space when several people will have almost the same data stored, except some few changes.
But that is not exactly what the OP wants to achieve. He certainly wants to have the same game data, and have locally the config files. But he also wants to have one common highscores file, that is writeable for everyone. So is like this:
Game data - readable-only for every one
Config files - readable/writeable and isolated for each user
Highscores - Exactly the same file, readable/writeable for anyone.
While union fusefs could help with the first 2 things, for the last one is necessary to use a symlink to an area writeable for anyone. And since in the end is necessary to use a symlink, maybe is more easy just to use symlinks for all.
So the path to solve it could be one of this options:
Install union fusefs, create an script to automount the files and create a symlink for the highscore files if it does not exist, and then run dosbox
Create an script to create the symlinks if they don't exist and then run dosbox
Last edited by chris_l (2013-01-18 16:56:09)

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