[K12OSN] Student problem

[Petre Scheie]

Look into ACLs (Access Control Lists) for Linux filesystems.  I don't know the 
state of it (there's some project on freshmeat for incorporating it into the 
kernel, etc.)  ACLs have been around for Solaris for years.

Petre

Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> I would like to add to the original question #1.  When making the drop
> folder you are only able to specify an owner and a group.  I am a little
> frustrated with both OS X and Linux in the fact that you are limited to
> only setting permissions for one additional group.  Problem is that I
> have a folder with the "student" group set to write only, "root" is the
> owner with full privilege, now I want to give the "teacher" group
> read/write privileges...oops...too bad...I can only specify one group.
> Is this truly a limit with Linux or do the gui's limit to only single
> group privileges.  On Windows I can specify privileges for 15 groups if
> I want for a single file or folder, now I am not a Windows fan but this
> is a huge benefit (at least in my narrow world).  Any suggestions?  Also
> can I specify a group as an owner instead of a user?  This may help
> some.  Then the "teacher" group could be the owner and have full
> privilege, and the "student" group as the group with write only.  
> 
>>From my reading it looks like there is a max of 3 variables no matter
> what, owner, group, and other.  This is indicated with the 3 digit code
> for permissions such as chmod 755.  Sure would be awesome to do a chmod
> 75550 if needed :-)  I just don't understand how corporate level file
> sharing can function with such limited user permissions.  But on the
> other hand maybe Windows shouldn't have spent so much time on file
> permissions and researched how to share AFP worth a crap instead :-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of Dan Young
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:37 AM
> To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Student problem
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 05:08, John P. Conlon wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately the teacher with the problem is an appliance operator.
>>Teaching her how to do something is root would be like trying to
> 
> shovel 
> 
>>water in the middle of an ocean.  The things I am asking about would,
> 
> I 
> 
>>think, give her control with out letting her into root.
> 
> 
> She doesn't need to be root to at least see who is sending her
> nasty-grams. /var/log/cups/page_log is world-readable. Either open that
> w/ gedit or go look at the cups web interface at :
> 
> http://localhost:631/jobs?which_jobs=completed
> 
> --
> -Dan Young
> -Parkrose School District
> 
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