By default, all user directories on Swan are accessible only by the HCC user themselves. When you want to share data stored on Swan with collaborators, we provide multiple ways on how you can do that, depending on your need.
Each method presented here has its advantages and disadvantages, and some methods work for sharing data with other HCC users and some when data is shared with external collaborators without HCC accounts.
Each method presented here has its advantages and disadvantages, and some methods work for sharing data with other HCC users and some when data is shared with external collaborators without HCC accounts.
The common methods used to share data stored on Swan are:
and the Sections below contain detailed information and setup steps for each.
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## Standard Unix permissions
Each file on the cluster can have `read (r)`, `write (w)` and `execute (x)` permissions for different access groupings. These access groupings are known as the `user (u)`, `group (g)` and `other (o)` permission modes of the file.