A.J, > That's the beauty of LTSP - just lock up the server. You can't root a > thin-client.
No, but you can root a server from a thin client. > I don't agree with the concept of denying them internet access, it's far > better to educate them in using it responsibly, I also know full well what > smart kids do to school networks if they are told not to (I was one of them, > my teacher really could have done better than her fiance's name for a > password). You also, eh? I took it farther than that once. A great many windows weenies went to great pains to make sure that I had no network access, as I was the linux geek of the area. One underground twisted pair to the local phone can and a hole in radius dial-in authentication later, and I was back in business. Then they arranged for my doors to get kicked down by the local gestapo, twice. When the first attempt didn't succeed, due to my quick thinking about due process, a microphone, and a threatened lawsuit, they came back a second time, but killed the power to the building first like the nazi's used to do, so I couldn't similarly provide proof of their wrongdoing. During the second raid I narrowly escaped out a window with all of the hard drives from my network while they were kicking in the boards where the door was. That path eventually led me to the 55th Internet Engineering Task Force conference in atlanta, via a 150 mile bicycle ride, a long stint of hitch-hiking, a few months of squatting on an abandoned victorian mansion, and a huge anti-war protest. At the IETF I found vindication from an international body of peers with enough power to effect such, and now live relatively happily less than 5 miles from where the home-invasion occurred, with a 10gHz openmosix cluster, 3 dec alpha linux terminal servers, redundant routes to the internet, 4 cats, a great wife and a daughter. True story. > All that said however, I tried to assist this gentleman in achieving what he > wanted to. > No problems there. Thats the goal, right? People doing what they want with software? Works for me. Enjoy, Scott > In practice, I think squid with ACL's is the better option however. > > A.J. > > -- > A.J Venter > Lead Developer, DireqLearn > 082 726 5103 > http://www.direqlearn.org > http://www.direqlearn.org/olce > http://silentcoder.co.za > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE > LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.freenode.net > sleekfreak pirate broadcast http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
