[NTLUG:Discuss] Permissions

[Kathleen Weaver]

Didn't get a chance to try this today.  Long day, lots of problems, but the
directory is arranged this way.

THANKS!

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On 9/3/99 at 12:17 PM victor at vail.net wrote:

>That's kind of easy to do though. If all the students have their home
>directories in /home (and assuming the students already own their own
>directories...which they should), just do this:
>
>log in as root.
>cd /home
>chgrp teachers *
>chmod 770 *
>
>Wham-o, you're done :) If your home dir situation is different though,
write
>back and I'd be glad to knock out a script for you to do this.
>
>Victor
>
>On 03-Sep-99 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
>>> 
>>> -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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>> 
>>  Kathleen
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