Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2018 schrieb Rowland Penny: > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 13:22:40 +0000 > g4sra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From my perspective, this topic has had some very interesting > > contributions. Thank you all whom have contributed. > > > > To pick out just one as an example, I had considered NIS\YP to be (or > > rather didn't consider because) all but defunct, and not taken it's > > simplicity and reliability over other methods into consideration. > > NIS is, to all intents and purposes, defunct > > > > > > Would have saved a bit of speculation and discussion had these > > > details been provided earlier :-/ > > Intentional, only the available hardware and purpose is set in stone. > > Too many details too early stifles creativity, the 'speculation' > > promoted 'discussion' and raised some points that would probably not > > have been made otherwise. ;) > > > > > > So far I am getting > > > > Active Directory, supported by PAM or SSSD on the Client workstation > > to control console login. > > You do not need sssd, it only really duplicates winbind (it even uses > some winbind code) and what winbind doesn't do that sssd does is easily > done by other methods e.g. Sudo > > > > > Either /home mounted from the sever over NFS, or individual User > > [home] shares over SMB. Sever directory of Training Software > > mounted\shared similarly. > > > > Which yields > > > > Single point of User account management on the server. > > Server resources restricted to 30 max simultaneous Users. > > Regular backup of the sever provides protection against all User data > > loss. Single point (well subdirectories, easy to script) for review > > of Trainee progress by management. > > > > Hmm, can AD prevent simultaneous single User login on multiple > > clients ? Somehow I have never needed AD, so lack experience with it. > > No it doesn't, but then neither does Linux ;-) > If you really wanted this, I am sure it is scriptable > As for which to use, an NFS or SMB mounted /home , most people seem to > use NFS.
You can do it with sshd on the server side :-) > > > > > Interestingly little mention of workstation BOOTP, NFS Root, Cloning > > On Boot. Manually applying CCR's in each training room of 28+ > > workstations is going to be a pita. No one mentioned the likes of > > Puppet, Ansible, ClusterSSH etc. > > > > This is probably down to the very little information you provided, I > also have no idea what 'Creedence Clearwater Revival' has to do with > anything we are discussing ;-) > > Just what do you require ? > Just what hardware will you have ? > > Rowland > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
