Have you considered a web-page gateway, or maybe a webDAV portal? You
could force SSL encryption and kerberos authentication.
The permissions model for WebDAV doesn't mesh with those required for
student home directories and classwork folders... unless someone has
come up with some other way of doing this, I don't quite see how it is
feasible. I should probably have mentioned that I'm wanting to give the
students access to their network home directories from home.
A web-page gateway is an interesting idea. I hadn't thought of that.
It's hardly ideal, but perhaps will be good enough..
The major problem there will be the reasonably large files that my
students upload. My experience in the past hasn't been that great with
uploading large files through web connections... it's not really
designed for it.
I've had another thought that is perhaps a bit crazy...
If I chroot the users to /Volumes, and then get rid of the symlink:
that would work ok for my purposes... I'm just wondering what exactly
in the OS relies on this symlink? If I'm not using the BootDrive for
home directories or any shares at all, I wonder what will break if I
trash this...
Basically I have:
/Volumes/Classwork
/Volumes/Students
that I need them to have access to. They're partitioned as my lecturers
have widely varying needs for disk space in their Classwork folders,
and no matter how much I give them, they're going to fill it up until
they get hassled to clean up.
nigel
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Nigel Kersten Systems Administrator
College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney, Australia.
CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G
