Re: Granting some root permissions to certain users

["Jeffrey E. Hundstad" <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>]

A. o de Weegh,

We use a kernel patch called trustees to do just what you're talking 
about.  Unfortunately the patch hasn't really been kept up-to-date.  I 
wish something *like* this could be included in the standard kernel, but 
I guess I understand why it's not also.

Here's a link to trustees: http://trustees.sourceforge.net/

You could also use ACLs to give your teachers permissions, but that 
tends to take a lot of work imho, but it's what were looking at to 
replace trustees when I can no longer get it to patch into kernels.

Here's a link to Linux ACL: http://acl.bestbits.at/

-- 
jeffrey hundstad


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