on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:32:09PM -0400, Sunny Dubey (dubeys@bxscience.edu) wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2001 04:11 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:50:32AM +0200, oivvio polite (ol1@v10a.com) > wrote: > > > I might soon have to set up some 20 - 30 boxes supporting some 200 > > > students. They'll want to do word processing, browse the web, read > > > mail. > > > > Lots of apps for the above. > > > > <snip snip> > > I'm guessing you haven't stepped inside a high school recently ... > while the apps you recomend are great and whatnot, do you really > believe that students will take the time to learn any of those apps?? Yes. > if most linux users don't want to learn TeX, or emacs, how are you > going to get students to learn?? (especially when this is only for > school, and not the real world outside, where sadly email apps like > outlook are just about standard.) You've looked at Evolution? GNU/Linux is about choice. If you really want to emulo legacy MS Windows on GNU/Linux boxen, I can point you to references of a fellow who's set up 25 instances of Win9x on a GNU/Linux server via Win4Lin, that he's exporting to a bunch of X Terminals. > > > Of course any user should be able to log into his/her account from > > > any box. What are my options here? > > > > NIS will do this for you. You'll also want NFS to remotely mount > > user directories. This largely reserves the individual workstations > > as satellites. You'll configure them largely identically. > > NIS isn't the more secure system in the world. (I think using rsync > over ssh would be even more secure than NIS). I can't claim expertise here. I've seen an NIS system setup on a small lab. In a reasonably protected environment, it should work well. SMB is hardly more secure. I believe security can be plugged in, though I'm not aware of specifics. Logins over ssh require a login on each terminal. This requires state on the terminals, which you claimed you wanted to avoid. > He could try ldap, which is supported by most operating systems, and > linux has the PAM modules for ldap too. Seems to me you're looking for fights, not answers. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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