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Authored by: gxw on Jun 16, '04 11:19:33PM

Here's what I'd try to accomplish this.
1. Copy the address book to a folder off the root Or somewhere more appropriate.
2. Make that folder readable & writable by the user accounts you want to share the address book between.
3. Log in as each user & create a symbolic link in the address book folder that points to the shared location (man ln)

Drawback
Simultanious updates would probably not work. Possibly only one user at a time can have the address book open.

Have not tried this in OS X but this is the way I'd do it in Linux.



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Authored by: gxw on Jun 16, '04 11:21:08PM

Uh oh.
Too slow to post - see first reply.



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Authored by: uli_the_knecht on Jun 17, '04 12:29:01AM

The best way to solve the problem with user permission would be to save the user-data on a separate partition. then you can set the option to ignore the permissions (information window of the partition).

regards, uli the knecht



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