Folks, I have a successful server setup here - and I plan on deploying to a few schools in this area.
I have two servers - a mailserver heavily customised with DHCP, LDAP, UUCP, Courier-imap, a wireless link and wwwoffle as a web cache. This is spec'ed at Pentium 1/32M/10G. A Windows network would use just that server. The second server is the thin client server, a Redhat Workstation install with ltsp RPMs and icewm, spec'ed big and fat. I have a WWW interface on the small server that adds LDAP entries for users, and thus gives them mail accounts that they can read with Courier-imap. I copy all LDAP changes offsite so that if things get trashed I can re-install. I want them to be able to log on to the thin client server, authenticating against the LDAP server, and I would like to use the pam_mkhomedir module to add a home directory on the thin client server if it did not already exist. This would allow me to not worry about the server config / backup - I just do a generic re-install if necessary and LDAP holds all the important bits. I have my own schema for LDAP, that stores the login, name, password and mail directory. If the home dir already exists, adding pam_ldap to the auth entry of /etc/pam.d/system-auth allows a login, but I think pam_mkhomedir needs more in LDAP, or one of the account/session pam entries is missing what it needs out of LDAP. Has anyone done this ? Any pam gurus in the house ? Cheers, Andy! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4699841;7576301;v?http://www.sun.com/javavote _____________________________________________________________________ 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
