Mandag 19. oktober 2009, skrev tlang80@gmail.com:
> Regarding Skolelinux 5.0, whenYou'll probably not counter into any severe problem using the Skolelinux
> I go to www.skolelinux.org, it still shows 3.0 -- do you think the
> 5.0 is stable enough to use, or are there bugs where I'd really
> would have to know what I'm doing to get around them?
5.0 network install CD.
The reason is simple. If we had let client machines be added to the
> Over the last few weeks, I've played with skolelinux and
> edubuntu. One thing I've noticed (that I have found is not
> explained very well in the wiki) is the requirement to set up a host
> in the LWAT. Without a host set up (and without updating the DHCP
> file) users cannot log-on to a workstation client. Instead, they
> get the message: "Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your
> installation."
network without adding MAC address to LWAT (and hence the authorisation
system proved by Linux kernel), any person with a laptop could connect
to the network as root user, gaining access to any file on the server.
Which is a major security breach.
By adding every machine to the authorisation system, only approved
hardware gains access to the system. Preventing access for machines
which portray as a server gaining root access without permission.
Security measures are not always intuitive. But this one is pretty
> If this is something that always happens (which is has for me and my
> hardware -- maybe others are different) I would definitely love to
> update the wiki on that. I had the assumption that you just add an
> user via LWAT and presto, you're set, but apparantly, you have to
> users *and hosts*, so a workstation is configured as static00 for
> example with it's mac address defined in the host section of the
> LWAT.
obvious, not allowing unauthorised machines to gain system wide access
to the school or municipality wide network. When restricting access to
machines to only approved once, we can be certain to distribute home
directories and such to persons who got a username and password to the
system.
I got no chance of guessing what might be the problem, the DVD, the
> Anyways, I have two computers where one ends up saying it can't
> install the dictionary during the installation, and another where
> the screen keeps blinking and the installation doesn't go any
> further. My other computers the installation went flawlessly. I'm
> going to try and reinstall using a more modern external DVD drive,
> as I think maybe the DVD drive (built in 2002) is the problem.
drive or something else. You might know, some older DVD players might
got a weak laser or a less sophisticated error handling system when
reading newer disk images burned on a DVD ...
Not all details of the computer network are explained, cause many
> Thanks again, I'll be checking the links you sent me. I've already
> looked at some of the wiki documentation over the last few weeks
> (and that's the one where I feel that the requirement to setup
> clients as static hosts is not very clearly explained, unless I'm
> missing something).
teachers got to much on their hands to get to deep into details. But now
you know, and might add your new earned knowledge to the documentation.
Secondly, it's possible to attach other machines to the net, but such
machines don't get access to file storage and other services. Only an
Internet connection through the network is provided (given that the
server got Internet :)
A minor, but important detail. I'll would appreciate if you wrote to the
debian-edu list when you got more questions. Then more people can help
and learn from your questions :)
Best regards
Knut Yrvin