[TriLUG] Linux Lab

[Jeff Jackowski]

On 4 Nov 2002, Elliot Peele 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.

I wouldn't do that. I don't think a SSN is secure enough. Also, if this is 
done for a public institution, I think you'll need to provide a Privacy 
Act Statement to people before you can legally get their SSN's.

>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.

If something like LTSP (mentioned previously in this thread; 
http://www.ltsp.prg/) is used, then only the server(s) have any stored 
software. The rest of the lab machines won't even need to store a kernel.

-- 
Jeff Jackowski
        http://ro.com/~jeffj/