[NTLUG:Discuss] Permissions

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

Sorry to obfuscate things, but Kathleen said full access, which to me means
read, write, & execute.

Those commands would not be enough.

You would also have to:
chmod g+s joes_dir

and set joe's umask:
umask 002

Only then could a member of the teacher group have full access to any file Joe
creates.

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"J. Reeves Hall" <reeves at earthling.net> on 09/03/99 02:27:26 PM

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Kathleen Weaver wrote:

> Oh, gee that looks like fun, I get to do that for 200 students.  Novell
> lets me do that with one change to syscon.
>
> I do have those students in group users -- anything I can do with that?
>
> On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, J. Reeves Hall wrote:
>
> > Kathleen Weaver wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having a "concept" problems with permissions.  I'm used to Novell, and
> > > I want to do something similar.
> > >
> > > I want to set up my teacher group to have full access to the student home
> > > directories.  How do I do that without giving students access to each
> > > directory.  I know how to do that in Novell.
> >
> > chgrp teachers joes_dir    #teachers group has access
> > chown joe joes_dir            # so does joe
> > chmod 770 joes_dir           #but nobody else

No, just chgrp teachers *, chmod 770 *, and the owners should already be set. Or
get crafty with a script.
Yes, I've heard Novell is pretty nice along those lines. You could always
rewrite
the kernel VFS layer :)

-Reeves

In a world without fences, why do we need Gates?
J. Reeves Hall - Georgia Tech (CS Major)
[overcode at resnet.gatech.edu]



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