From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 11 1:36:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10505.mail.yahoo.com (web10505.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1670537B407 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:36:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netgecko78@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010811083607.27554.qmail@web10505.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.150.32.14] by web10505.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:36:07 BST Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:36:07 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Roby=20Sadeli?= Subject: setting up user permissions for lab courses To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi freebsd demons, i'd like to ask for suggestions for my problem here : i have a freebsd 4.3 which is used for lab courses. there are several lab courses, for example: 1. algorithms 2. database_programming and i've got students in my server as follows : username group courses taken rot student algorithms dummy student database_programming brainy student algorithms, database_programming guru teacher i want all students not to share their works with one another and make sure the teachers can access the students' work in their home directory. i come up with a solution like this : * change students' directory permission to 750 * change owner of students' directories to teacher (freebsd keeps telling me that the owner of the directory doesn't belong to the owner) * blocking chmod (but sometimes the students use this) i'm sure better solutions exist. thanks in advance roby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message