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From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: "A. op de Weegh" <aopdeweegh@rockopnh.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Granting some root permissions to certain users
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:56:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040525165627.GT1749@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jbm.20040525185001.f766d1ea@TOSHIBA>

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 06:50:01PM +0200, A. op de Weegh wrote:
> Hi all,
> At our school, we have a installed Fedora Core 1 on a machine which acts as a 
> server. Our students may store reports and other products, that they have 
> created for their lessons, on this machine. Also the teachers have an 
> account.
>  
> I would like the teachers to have list access on ALL directories. Just as the 
> root user has. I wouldn't like the teachers to have all root permissions, but 
> they should only be able to list ALL directories available. Viewing only, no 
> writing.

That is usually done by means of supplementary groups.

And then somehow enforcing users to have their file/directory permissions
to include group X for directories, and group R for everything.

This means also, that users are allocated just a few groups, not
a group for each user (like FC1 does by default)

> Any idea how I can achieve this?
>  
> Thanx,
> Alex

/Matti Aarnio

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-25 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-25 16:50 A. op de Weegh
2004-05-25 16:56 ` Matti Aarnio [this message]
2004-05-25 16:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-25 17:07 ` Jeffrey E. Hundstad
2004-05-27 18:57 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-10  4:38 ` Henry Yen

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