[luau] Saving in /home

[Nakashima]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Vince Hoang wrote:

> 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.

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that the student's /home would
be within his/her teacher's /home? Would this mean that student home dirs
need to be changed every year when they change teachers?