[K12OSN] Permissions Question

[Doug Simpson]

Are you just needing the ability to let the teachers look at their 
documents and work?

Is this a samba server serving windows clients?

If so, make /home a share, and set the teachers as administrative users, 
make it non-browseable, and read only, and also set the teachers as valid 
users.  As soon as you set a user (or users) as valid users, then that 
restricts the share to only the users that are in the valid list.  Meaning 
other students can't see into each other's home directories.

My teachers can open their student's home directoriesa d look at docs and 
etc anytime.

Hope this helps. . .

Doug

P.S. If anyone sees anything wrong with this method, let me know. . .

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Huck wrote:

> Chgrp teachers *.*
> 
> Is the command...
> Can put in a cron to automatically do it everyday at 3pm...etc..
> Or do it manually...
> Could make a script for the teachers to run each time they check files
> as well..
> 
> --Huck
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of Jim Hays
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:10 AM
> To: button at gti.net; Support list for opensource software in schools.
> Subject: [K12OSN] Permissions Question
> 
> 
> 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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-- 
Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
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