From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "A. op de Weegh" <aopdeweegh@rockopnh.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Granting some root permissions to certain users
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:57:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040527185713.GB509@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jbm.20040525185001.f766d1ea@TOSHIBA>
Hi!
> 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.
>
> Any idea how I can achieve this?
Create setuid ls with permissions rwxr-x--- root.teachers.
Teachers may be able to get root if they are real good hackers (and exploit
some bug in ls), but
they certainly not break anything by mistake.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-27 19:16 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
2004-05-25 16:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-25 17:07 ` Jeffrey E. Hundstad
2004-05-27 18:57 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-06-10 4:38 ` Henry Yen
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