| Free Software at Schools: Installing and Maintaining a Debian-Edu Network; Also Known as Skolelinux | ||
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There are many things you can do for your users, so that their experience of working with a Skolelinux/Debian-edu-machine will excede anything they have known previously, believe me.
To start with, every users get two directories created when the user is created
drwxrwx--- klaus klaus priv drwxrwxr-x klaus klaus pubthat is, a directory that is open for everyone to view, pub and one that is closed to other users priv.
If you aren't comfortable with the idea that your users are supposed to understand the concept of a closed (priv) and an open directory (pub) in their home directories you can change this. You can either lock the directories at the top level after the users are created chmod 700 /skole/tjener/home0/*, or you can open them a little chmod 711 /skole/tjener/home0/*
If you want your users to have several directories from the start, for example the directories matematics, English, German, French, this can be done by changing a bit of the file /usr/share/webmin/ldap-users/createhomedir, by adding these lines:
# Make a directory related to the subject mathematics mkdir "$homedir/matematics" chmod 0770 "$homedir/matematics" # Make a directory related to the subject English mkdir "$homedir/English" chmod 0770 "$homedir/English" # Make a directory related to the subject German mkdir "$homedir/German" chmod 0770 "$homedir/German" # Make a directory related to the subject French mkdir "$homedir/French" chmod 0770 "$homedir/French"