Students editing output (INFO-UNIX Digest V1#161)

[Bob Peirce]

>>  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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