Folder permissions For each project create a group on gustav1 using this command sudo groupadd group_name Then add all the users involved in that project to that group sudo usermod -a -G group_name user_name Give group level full permission to a folder setfacl -R -m g:group_name:rwX /data/project_folder Also make permissions default for all future folder created by everyone setfacl -Rd -m g:group_name:rwX /data/project_folder