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Defining Home Folder For Users

A Home Folder is the landing folder in which a user will see and gained access to when he/she is logged in.

Different users can be assigned with a different home folder.
This can be determined by their organizational/functional roles.

For example, there are 5 users with different roles in their organization:

  • Anne is a project manager that oversees all projects' development.
  • Carl is a project executive who is managing Project A.
  • Lily is a project executive who is managing Project B.
  • John is the CEO of the company.
  • Sarah is the HR manager of the company.

Following the above scenarios, the suggested home folder for each of these users are:

UserHome FolderDescription
Anne/ProjectsAs Anne is the project manager, she should have the privilege to access all files and folders in the Projects/ folder, including Project A (which is managed by Carl) and Project B (which is managed by Lily).
However, she is not given access to the Human Resource or other department's folders.
Carl/Projects/Project AAs Carl only manages Project A, he does not have access to Project B or other folders.
Lily/Projects/Project BAs Lily only manages Project B, she does not have access to Project A or other folders.
John/John should have access to all folders as he is the CEO of the company.
Sarah/Human ResourceAs a HR manager, Sarah has access to the Human Resource folder, but not other folders that are not within her scope of work (such as the Projects folder).

Note: / refers to the root directory.

A graphical representation of the folder access by users is as per below.

Note that all users will see their respective home folder as “Home”.

laf/get_started/defining_home_folder_for_users.txt · Last modified: 2022/07/22 12:25 by vikki