ITS has not, as of yet, upgraded to AD for its domain system. However, aformentioned Dr. Bindner has written a PAM module that allows a user to authenticate to the truman domain. This could be very handy. Using this, we could almost convert an entire lab temporarily to linux if we wanted to(Not sure if needed, but it would be very cool), if we had a working bootable linux distro for the network. Just some thoughts...
Caleb Jorden [EMAIL PROTECTED] TSLUG Treasurer ITS Student Worker in Network Administration Benjamin Story wrote: > >I'd suggest you look at Knoppix as a base. It would serve as a good >one since it's designed for use as a bootable CD or a HD install. >This way you can put out demo discs. Also I know that Dr. Bindner has >done a lot of work in the Math and CS Division to get Debian to >interact with the campus network. Finally, I'm not sure if ITS has >upgraded or not, but when they upgrade to Active Directory, you should >be able to "logon" to the campus network using Kerberos and LDAP >modules. >On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:23:42PM -0600, Peter Snoblin wrote: >> >> I was thinking Debian, for a few reasons. First is that its what I know >> better, secondly it would help users avoid the dependency hell that strikes >> all rpm based installs after awhile, and finally it would be pretty easy to >> maintain an on campus apt source for it. >> >> (my appologies for the screwy =20 thing in my first message, KDE ate my KMail >> config. again. I think I have it fixed now.) >> >> On Thursday 23 January 2003 09:16 pm, you wrote: >> > I think that that is a great idea. There are a lot of little little >> > "gotchas" with the truman network. It might also be useful to include >> > some sample iptables scripts that would help new users to secure their >> > machines. Mandrake's default configuration of CUPS has been a thorn in >> > my side for a couple of years now. It looks like they have secured it >> > more in version 9.0 though. Before that if I didn't remember to edit it >> > after an install/update it would accept jobs for an arbitrary machine on >> > the network. Some special documentation might also be useful. I've >> > written a rudimentary Introduction to Linux >> > (http://www.brandonchisham.com/online_books/), this could >> > easily be adapted to include some Truman specific stuff. >> > >> > It would probably be good to start with something very flexible like >> > Gentoo or Debian, so that a higher level of customization could be >> > achieved. >> > >> > Brandon >> >> -- >> Peter Snoblin - http://www2.truman.edu/~pas577/ >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with Subject: unsubscribe >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >-- >-- >Benjamin Story > >() Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email and Microsoft-specific >/\ attachments. If I wanted to read HTML, I would have visited your website! >Support open standards. > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with Subject: unsubscribe >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
