On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:37:06AM -1000, Nakashima wrote: > I want to implement this new system of creating a Student > folder in every teacher's /home, and fill it with links to > their student's /home. That's why I want to make all student > /home 6770, and add the teacher to the student's primary group. > I figured it would allow the teacher to read and write to all > of his/her students /home.
I am a bit reluctant to suggest this, but you might consider using a convention of /home/$teacher/$student and skip handling symlinks all together. This approach would involve updating the home dirs for the accounts in /etc/passwd. -Vince
