Fw: Re: [seul-edu] Linux computer lab

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: Tom Hoffman <hoffman@as220.org>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Linux computer lab
> 
> On Tuesday 24 April 2001 18:04, you wrote:
> 
> > I've heard that NIS works well, but does not support
> encryption (easily).
> > Does anyone else know of a good, simple solution?  Thanks.
> >
> > --Greg
> 
> I use NIS and NFS in my classroom.  It took me about a day to
> get NIS running 
> and a day to get NFS running.  They have performed essentially
> flawlessly all 
> year.  I haven't worried about the security end of it.  My
> network is 
> separated from the rest of the school by a gateway, and the
> school is behind 
> a firewall, and our seventh graders aren't going to be
> sniffing packets 
> anytime soon.  Regardless, if you can get the security end
> working, I'd 
> definitely recommend NIS/NFS, and I have found O'Reilly's
> Managing NFS and 
> NIS to be very helpful, if dated.
> -- 
> Tom Hoffman
> hoffman@as220.org
> http://www.as220.org/~hoffman
> ~oOo~
> Teaching is necessary and useful work; it is real and
> creative, for it 
> directly confronts an important subject matter, the children
> themselves;  it 
> is obviously self-justifying;  and it is ennobled by the arts
> and sciences.
> --Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd
> 
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