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From: TTussing.es@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: INFO-UNIX Digest  V1#161
Message-ID: <1575@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 13:26:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 13:26:27 1985
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>  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
what if the student is taking non-computer classes that use a computer
(like stat or engineering classes) then they get at least 1 more
account.   I'll admit that I had a lot of accounts in school, but at
least I could use them as I saw fit.  I didn't have to sit and think
"well, which account can I write to today?"

					Tara Tussing


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