Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-10-01 Thread Nakashima
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Warren Togami wrote: > > I only want to make student /home 6770. > > /etc/cron.daily/homeperms > > Edit this file to change the permission that it sets every night. Warren, I looked at the file just now and this is what it looks like. Did someone make the change already? #!

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:59:38PM -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: > Umm, this is a great idea. "Teacher" becomes the root of all the > students. Is that what you're coming into? Pretty much. Home directories can be anywhere, not just under /home. Again, there are caveats to that approach.

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:37, Nakashima wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Warren Togami wrote: > > > Also remember that the umask for netatalk needs to be set. I don't know > > how to do this for the /home directories though... > > > > Making all home directories 777 really makes me nervous. It might

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > netatalk itself is just as scarey! > Indeed it is. It is very poorly documented too. > ACL info here: http://acl.bestbits.at/ > > the utilities are in the RPM called "acl". > I know about ACL filesystems. I am just concerned if it is st

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Nakashima
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I might have something written in C just for this purpose. > > It uses the /etc/group (for group members) and /etc/passwd (for home dirs) > and symlinks into the teacher's ~/students > > it would run like this: > > linkstud group teacher > > Tell me i

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Umm, this is a great idea. "Teacher" becomes the root of all the students. Is that what you're coming into? 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

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread tom_gordon
lease respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: [luau] Saving in /home On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How are you going to manage all these links? > > If, say, the students were in the same gi

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:41:17AM -1000, Nakashima wrote: > 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? Yes. Yes. There will need

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Nakashima
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 > > /ho

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Nakashima
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How are you going to manage all these links? > > If, say, the students were in the same gid as the teacher you could > script it all to be automatic without the need for an outside database > or constant management outside adding/removing users. Yes,

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Vince Hoang
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 prima

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread tom_gordon
by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: [luau] Saving in /home On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Warren Togami wrote: > Also remember that the umask for netatalk needs to be set. I don't know > how to do this for the /home directories though... &g

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Nakashima
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Warren Togami wrote: > Also remember that the umask for netatalk needs to be set. I don't know > how to do this for the /home directories though... > > Making all home directories 777 really makes me nervous. It might work > for a school like Liholiho, but otherwise it is a

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread tom_gordon
The directories in /home should be 755 where do you get 777? Are you in the right thread? Tom Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [luau] Saving in /home Also remember that the umask for netatalk needs to be

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread tom_gordon
netatalk itself is just as scarey! ACL info here: http://acl.bestbits.at/ the utilities are in the RPM called "acl". Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [luau] Saving in /home Also remember that

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-30 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Warren Togami wrote: Making all home directories 777 really makes me nervous. Ditto.

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-29 Thread Warren Togami
Also remember that the umask for netatalk needs to be set. I don't know how to do this for the /home directories though... Making all home directories 777 really makes me nervous. It might work for a school like Liholiho, but otherwise it is a disaster waiting to happen. We really need to fix n

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-29 Thread Tom_Gordon/RISE/HIDOE
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [luau] Saving in /home On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 04:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you aren't using Samba then the default file permission are taken > from > "umask" (env variable) subtracted from 777. >

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-29 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:14:49PM -1000, Nakashima wrote: > I'm very green so you'll have to speak slowly. We are using Samba to > talk to our Windoze machines. How does this relate to umask? Not much. > So umask controls the permissions assigned to new files as they > are create right? How do

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-29 Thread Nakashima
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 04:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you aren't using Samba then the default file permission are taken from "umask" (env variable) subtracted from 777. you can set umask in /etc/bashrc and it might be set somewhere on the system also (~/bashrc) look for u

Re: [luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-29 Thread tom_gordon
If you aren't using Samba then the default file permission are taken from "umask" (env variable) subtracted from 777. you can set umask in /etc/bashrc and it might be set somewhere on the system also (~/bashrc) look for umask=177 which would be the culprit (022 is default on redhat). adios

[luau] Saving in /home

2003-09-29 Thread Nakashima
Hi all, I want a student's teacher to have rw access to that student's /home. I change the student's /home to 6770. The teacher can see the student's /home and can rw. However, when the student saves an OO file to /home it gets saved as 600. Isn't it supposed to get saved as 770? As I'm new to Linu