Students editing output (INFO-UNIX Digest V1#161)
Bob Peirce
rbp at investor.UUCP
Tue Sep 24 04:58:58 AEST 1985
>> It strikes me the student could do his work in a subdirectory of a
>> directory, owned by the instructor. The student owns his subdirectory
>> to prevent other students from looking. The instructor arranges with
>> root to make all these directories become owned by the instructor and
>> unwritable by others at the cut-off date. This could be done with cron
>> or at.
> How IRRATING that would be. First of all what if the student had more
> the one computer class (which is fairly common, at least were I went to
> school). Also almost everyone I knew used their accounts for a myriad
> of other things besides school work. So should students be given one
> more account for personal work. Now we're up to 3 accounts. And then
I was assuming a Unix system. A simple "cd some_path/student" would suffice.
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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA
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