Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, David Trask wrote:
> I'm not 100% positive, and Oli or Scott can answer this much better than > I, but I know that the ability to have both "thick and thin" clients from > an Edubuntu server has been discussed at UDS's in the past. I'm not sure > where the spec is at the moment, but I believe and hope that what you are > talking about MAY be addressed in an upcoming release....perhaps even as > soon as Hardy. The primary thing that needs to be done here, I suspect, is LDAP integration (there has been a central authentication server spec for several releases now). Until the accounts are stored in something like LDAP rather than the traditional files in /etc, thick clients will involve a fair amount of legwork by the person doing the setup and the user-admin tools in ubuntu by default won't work properly, eg what happens if a user logs in and tries to change their password if LDAP is in use? Last I heard, the lack of a users-admin tool which worked with ldap was the big problem. debian-edu have been using LDAP by default for years, but they use webmin for administering it. Once centralised authentication works, a thick client can probably be done with a few nfs mounts. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
