[K12OSN] Re: Permissions Question

[Daniel Button]

Jim,

I believe that your problem is how the user id are created.  I would
guess that the line in /etc/passwd shows that the user is given an id
and put in a group of the same same name.  An example is a follows:

/etc/passwd:
kdanb:x:500:500:Daniel Button:/home/kdanb:/bin/bash

/etc/group:
kdanb:x:500:

Now do an ls -la of /home
drwx--  41 kdanb kdanb 4096 Apr  7 14:29 kdanb


If I understand what you want, you need to change the group entry in
/etc/passwd. The user's primary group needs to be changed to the
teachers group.  I would not add the users in the /etc/group entry
though unless the teachers group is something that the students can't
use to make mischief.

/etc/passwd would look something like this:
kdanb:x:500:1:Daniel Button:/home/kdanb:/bin/bash

Now anytime the user create a new file or directory the ls -la entry
will look like this:
drwxr-xr-x   2 kdanb bin     4096 Apr  7 14:36 tmp3

>From a security standpoint, I don't think you want to do this, but it
does give what you ask for.  I don't recommend it!!

Dan




On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:10, Jim Hays wrote: 
> I am almost embarrassed to ask this question, but since I have never met 
> any of you face-to-face, I guess I can ask a "dumb" question.
> 
> Scenario: (K12LTSP server as a file server for the school. Term Server 
> is a different box.)  Middle School.  Student Home Folders in /home 
> partition.  Folders in subdirectories by graduation year.  For example, 
> a student named Joe Cool in the class of 2008 has a folder 
> /home/students/2008/coojo08.  His username is coojo08.  Folders are 
> owned by the student and the group for the folders is teachers. 
> 
> The problem:  When a student creates a file in his/her folder, the files 
> is "owned" by the student as owner and by the student as group.  I need 
> to have the group for these files be teachers. 
> 
> What do I do to make it so that files created by students in their 
> folders are accessible to teachers who are in the teachers group? 
> 
> Here is what a file looks like now:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 woobr08  woobr08     21504 Apr  7 10:13 Stocks.xls
> 
> I need it to be
> 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 woobr08  teachers      21504 Apr  7 10:13 Stocks.xls
> 
> TIA for any advice.
> 
> 
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