On 25 Oct 2002 14:14:13 +0200, Daniel �a� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am network administrator of Main Library of Opole University. We are
> going to use LTSP in our library. Definitely. We even bought 2 servers
> for this and 12 dedicated terminals. Yes we want to use one account for
> many users as we were doing for years with NOVELL for example. This
> account is student with no password and very low rights. We have many
> students and i think that creating accounts for them is not good idea.
> Anybody know or can help how to avoid problems with such configuration
> with KDE as the desktop?
First, congratulations! I hope you have all luck possible.
But try to force yourself out of the single-login idea. This isn't Novell; this
is a different breed of cat. For one thing, this is a new install- not something
you've run for the last 12 years and gotten all the security holes out of- you might
leave open something that a more veteran admin would close on the first login. It's
just something that's gonna happen sooner or later.
Running a single login also gives you almost no clue whatsoever as to
who-did-what, but it can tell you which terminal, and that's not much help.
How would a student send/receive email, for example? Are you going to ask for yet
another login for that? Think it's gonna be as hardened as the primary login?
Probably not.
Students are students. Sure, they may only have accounts for 12 weeks, but those
can be some really long weeks. Use individual logins. Use tools to help make this
easier: /etc/skel and webmin.
The /etc/skel setup lets you create a sample directory (and for that matter
running scripts) to create a template account. Each time a new user is created, the
files in that directory are used as defaults. I believe "man skel" is where you'll
find these details. Redhat also has a nice part on it, in the manual.
You *might* even want to invoke quotas at some point (other than email boxes!) so
that one user doesn't download the world and expect the system to handle it. Again,
another good use of individual logins. Setting a single quota for the one user means
that one instance of the generic login can suck-up all the drive space and lock out
ALL other users.
Webmin allows you to admin the thing remotely- you don't even have to be on the
same continent, yet you get full control over the system from the comfort of your
desktop...any desktop...wherever you are. And it's a nice, simple, graphical (web)
application that's convenient to use, not to mention educational. See
http://www.WebMin.com.
Unix (and therefore, Linux) was created this way for a reason; remember it was
concieved in a reseach-bunker at AT&T, but it was strengthened and grown in academic
environments like Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT.
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