On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Vince Hoang wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:37:06AM -1000, Nakashima wrote: > > I want to implement this new system of creating a Student > > folder in every teacher's /home, and fill it with links to > > their student's /home. That's why I want to make all student > > /home 6770, and add the teacher to the student's primary group. > > I figured it would allow the teacher to read and write to all > > of his/her students /home. > > I am a bit reluctant to suggest this, but you might consider > using a convention of /home/$teacher/$student and skip handling > symlinks all together. This approach would involve updating the > home dirs for the accounts in /etc/passwd.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that the student's /home would be within his/her teacher's /home? Would this mean that student home dirs need to be changed every year when they change teachers?