Re: Debian workstations in a school environment
Philippe,
You might want to check out lessdisks. It allows you to set up diskless
debian clients. Set up is fairly straight forward and administering a
single debian image on the lessdisks server is a lot easier than managing
a room full of debian boxes.
Applications for workstations are added at server with built in chrooting
lessdisks-aptget, making deployment very easy. We've even cron'd in the
daily updates for images.
Even though diskless client can and should use standard ssh, tcpip
wrappers, etc.
Should find several posts on web where it's been used in school
environment.
Good luck,
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a network administrator in a highschool in Belgium. Right now all
> our workstations run Windows. There is however a possibility for me to
> convert some old machines that have quite some trouble running XP
> smoothly to linux. The problem is however that I'm not that experienced
> managing linux workstations.
>
> I've been a linux user for quite some time now (about 3 years) and I
> like debian (and ubuntu). There's however a big difference between my
> computer and public computers at school. I want things as secure as
> possible, and lockdown as tight as possible.
>
> I was wondering if there are any documents (there must be!) available on
> these issues. I know it is possible, I've seen machines that disallow
> console login (only X was allowed) and a whole lot else. I can't seem to
> get much useful out of google ...
>
>
> Hope anyone can help me
>
> Kind regards
>
> Philippe De Ryck
>
>
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