How might the NIS requirement affect those using alternate authentication schemes? We are happily authenticating users against our PDC using SAMBA's winbind. For us, winbind makes transitioning users from PC to thin client quite painless and administration is a breeze.
Can't wait to see version 3.1.... -- Carrie Coy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The problem with running an rsh daemon on the >workstations is that it needs to know WHO is sending >the request to run something, and whether they are >allowed to or not. > >By turning on local apps, you enable NIS. That is how >the rsh daemon will validate that the "WHO" is a correct >user. > >An alternative to NIS might be LDAP, but we haven't gotten >that to work for local apps yet. > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
