[K12OSN] home directory listing for teachers

[Kari Matthews]

Is there an automated way to graduate students from one directory to the
next between school years with this method?  Just curious.

~kari




On 8/14/06, Sudev Barar <sbarar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15/08/06, Paul Lemke <lists at paulandmichelle.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Taking a swipe at this....
> Make /home/grade1, /home/grade2 etc. under which make users of each
> grade. Now make groups grade1 grade2 ... and make teachers of each
> grade part of that group. Then directory permission with
> user:gradegroup should do the job. Trick is to set sticky bit so that
> the group ownership is automatically attached to all files created in
> subdirectories.
>
> HTH
> --
> Regards,
> Sudev Barar
>
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