From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264972AbUEYQ4d (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 12:56:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264974AbUEYQ4d (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 12:56:33 -0400 Received: from mail.zmailer.org ([62.78.96.67]:61638 "EHLO mail.zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264972AbUEYQ4a (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 12:56:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:56:27 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio To: "A. op de Weegh" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Granting some root permissions to certain users Message-ID: <20040525165627.GT1749@mea-ext.zmailer.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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