Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2004 20:57:14 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Granting some root permissions to certain users |
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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 -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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