Issue creating shared directory between host and guest

[Patrick]

[Help Welcome] KVM Development - staying the course

https://forums.whonix.org/t/issue-creating-shared-directory-between-host-and-guest/11245 reminds me… chmod 777 /home/user/shared isn’t a great. Security issue and usability issue. As per https://chmod-calculator.com/ 777 allow public (i.e. any linux user account including those not having business there on the system) to read, write, execute files from that folder. Is there some more canonical way to set up shared folders with KVM? [1] Under which user is KVM attempting to write to shared fol…