[TriLUG] Linux Lab

[Elliot Peele]

Let me rephrase that....Use there SS# as there initial password and let
them change it. NC Sate still uses SSNS as initial password for all
incoming students, staff, and faculty. 

Elliot

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:38, Stephen Schaefer wrote:
> 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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