[K12OSN] home directory listing for teachers

[Steven Santos]

I think if you set permissions to 770 it should do the trick.

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Steven Santos
Director, Simply Circus, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Paul Lemke
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 11:17 PM
> To: 'Support list for open source software in schools.'
> Subject: [K12OSN] home directory listing for teachers
>
>
> Hello all,
> So I guess this would be an easy question for you linux veterans
> out there.
> but it's really stumping me as I don't have to use linux every day.
>
> I'm trying to setup a way for the teachers to get access to the students
> home directories. Currently they are all located in
> "/home/username/". They
> currently have default permissions of 700 and owned by
> "username:gradegroup". I currently have smbldap setup and working.
>
> Ideally I'd love to setup a samba share for the teachers. It would list
> folders for each grade (five, six, etc.), then inside those
> folders list the
> users home folders and allow the teachers to go in and read/write/delete,
> etc.
>
> I have no idea how to make that happen... we'll I have an idea,
> but I doubt
> it's correct.
>
> I was going to change the ownership of the home directories for
> the kids...
> "username:teachergroup" and chmod it to 770. Then a softlink
> share in samba
> would show all the users home directories. But it doesn't let me
> break it up
> by gradegroup.
>
> What are your thoughts on this? Is there a better way to do what I want to
> accomplish? I look forward to hearing your wisdom!!
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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