[OpenAFS] acl's and directories

[Esther Filderman]

Well, some people don't like double mounting volumes. It's a religious
issue :-).

[I do it though.]



On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:17:45 -0600, Ben Staffin <staffin@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Even better, put them somewhere else (/classes/username?) and make
> mountpoints for them in /home/user/classes.  The instructors can access
> them via one tree and the students can access them inside their own
> homedir.
> 
> - Ben
> 
> * Esther Filderman <mizmoose@gmail.com> [2005-02-07 11:15] wibbled:
> > Put the classes directories somewhere else and symlink them into /home/user/.
> >
> > e.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:27:19 -0800 (PST), Ron Croonenberg
> > <ronc@depauw.edu> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I want to create student accounts in such a way that.
> > >
> > > Every student has a homedirectory (for example) :  /home/ron
> > >
> > > Then every student account needs a "classes" directory (for example):
> > > /home/ron/classes
> > >
> > > and everyone in the group instructors needs the rl permissions set for that one.
> > >
> > > However when I don't give everyone in the instructors group at least l
> > > permission in /etc/ron then still (even though they have rl in
> > > /home/ron/classes) they get a "permission denied" when trying to access it.
> > >
> > > Now the problem is that I can give the instructors the l permission in the
> > > students homedirectory but then every directory the students create from their
> > > homedirectory will have that instructors permission too.
> > >
> > > Can what I want be done ?  basically give instructors permission in a
> > > subdirectory but nowhere else ?
> > >
> > > Same problem occurs with "public_html"  apache is running on a different system
> > > that uses the afs client to get access to the user accounts public_html.
> > > That means that "anyone" needs rl access to "public_html" and that only seems to
> > > work when "anyone" has l access to that users homedirectory.
> > >
> > > any sugestions ?
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
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