Re: Granting some root permissions to certain users

[Pavel Machek]

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
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