[TriLUG] Linux Lab

[Stephen Schaefer]

I'd be leary of using a SS#: does UNC still use your
SS# for your student ID?  If so, it's *real* easy to
steal someone's SS#.

    - Stephen

--- Elliot Peele <ebpeele2 at pams.ncsu.edu> wrote:
> What kind of setting are you trying to do this in?
> (library, loby, etc.)
> 
> My suggestion if you plan to have people use the
> machines more than once
> is to go with a authentication system like kerberos
> and probably nfs for
> home directories depending on the scalability that
> you need. If its a
> library make a user name based on name and use there
> SS# for a password.
> Setup the file server to be the kerberos server as
> well as the kickstart
> server. You also need something like current or yum
> to keep all of the
> machines up to date. The main server could be the
> only machine that is
> remotely managed. Depending on how you want to do
> account creation, have
> a web page that someone could request an account,
> that way you could
> collect information on who your users are, and have
> a librarian or lab
> operator approve the account.
> 
> Elliot
> 


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