On Tue, 06 Feb 2007, Dmitri Minaev wrote: > I meant because of the hardware configuration of the server. I read > that the LTSP server requires around 100Mb RAM per client. I've got > only 256...
Understood. > > The next version of Edubuntu (Feisty) is supposed to include an LDAP setup. > > So, I guess it would make sense to use that for global account details. > > Yes, I've heard about it and, I think, I could survive till April-May > with a simpler setup, like simply copying /etc/passwd and other such > files to the workstations :). I recently moved to using two thin client servers in parallel and am using NIS rather while we wait on LDAP. I did consider an rsync-style thing but I didn't want teachers to have to understand that they had to add accounts to machine1 and then wait until midnight before logins would work on machine2. > To create a new .deb every time I add a new user sounds like an > overkill to me... Absolutely. Sorry I was thinking of conf files in general rather than user stuff. For examples your cups printers.conf, some global gconf settings, etc. I don't think I'd advocate packaging for passwd files. Although: - you script creation - you could probably script the machines to check for packages and upgrade every 10 minutes (as you could with rsync of course). I guess there's not much difference between the rsync and the .deb way really. It just sort of sounded like an elegant solution -- in particular you could do things like add a dependency for an extra package you want installed on all machines automatically all within the aot/dpkg facilities which are already on the machine. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
