[K12OSN] Student problem

[Jim Hays]

 From my reading, this requires the installation of ACL code.  Is the 
ACL code part of K12LTSP?  If so, how do we implement ACL on our shares?


Jim Kronebusch wrote:

>I would like to add to the original question #1.  When making the drop
>folder you are only able to specify an owner and a group.  I am a little
>frustrated with both OS X and Linux in the fact that you are limited to
>only setting permissions for one additional group.  Problem is that I
>have a folder with the "student" group set to write only, "root" is the
>owner with full privilege, now I want to give the "teacher" group
>read/write privileges...oops...too bad...I can only specify one group.
>Is this truly a limit with Linux or do the gui's limit to only single
>group privileges.  On Windows I can specify privileges for 15 groups if
>I want for a single file or folder, now I am not a Windows fan but this
>is a huge benefit (at least in my narrow world).  Any suggestions?  Also
>can I specify a group as an owner instead of a user?  This may help
>some.  Then the "teacher" group could be the owner and have full
>privilege, and the "student" group as the group with write only.  
>
>>From my reading it looks like there is a max of 3 variables no matter
>what, owner, group, and other.  This is indicated with the 3 digit code
>for permissions such as chmod 755.  Sure would be awesome to do a chmod
>75550 if needed :-)  I just don't understand how corporate level file
>sharing can function with such limited user permissions.  But on the
>other hand maybe Windows shouldn't have spent so much time on file
>permissions and researched how to share AFP worth a crap instead :-)
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