-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John E. Perry wrote: > G T Smith wrote: >> ...NT user accounts are >> frequently dynamically created on the local machine on login and the >> account removed on logout, accounts and their settings exist on the >> network NOT the machine (I am unaware of anything similar on *NIX). The >> approach has its problems but works well enough... >> > > After all the really good stuff you've contributed, this is a real > shocker, so maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying. > > I worked in a facility a few years ago (late '90's) where there were > dozens of antique Suns, of the 10MHz Sparc, 128M RAM, 50MB disk variety, > and a few late-model, high-power machines. We got a new sysadmin who, > within a few days, had us all set up with an nfs-shared central home > directory on a large, fast machine. We could log in from anywhere in > the facility and have our own complete working environment, with all our > personal environment, file structure, and home-based programs. I even > had him set up my machine (one of the slowest, smallest, oldest) to work > as an X-terminal to one of the largest, most powerful, but little used > machines, and the only difference between running my applications on the > Ultra and on my klunky little desktop was that my machine had only 256 > colors available for display. > > Doesn't this qualify as dynamically created on the local machine? and on > the intermediate machine? Solaris is unix, you're aware? > > John Perry
Sorry, had come across this now that you remind me (I think it was called yellow pages, Suntools or something and was not pure NFS but had a network administrative layer of some sort... ).. I had completely forgotten about it!... must be going senile :-/ .. Did not have have much to with admin side of this... too busy writing dodgy Quintus prolog stuff at time, damn nice development environment for the mid 80s though.... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHC6OpasN0sSnLmgIRAqxDAKDRnMOKW9dN58qXRYta9f3nGB8MKACg9GNn dmFx/G5c97zdAVmLFkTT8Ew= =QBrd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
