Re: Granting some root permissions to certain users

[Matti Aarnio]

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
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