[K12OSN] home directory listing for teachers

[cliebow at midmaine.com]

i think you are looking for extended permisiions..but if you change group
ownershipof student files to teachersgroup and perms to 770 should be ok..
> I think if you set permissions to 770 it should do the trick.
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> but if you change group ownership of studentfiles to
>> -----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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