Re: [seul-edu] How would the kids login in the lab?

[Jon Stanley <jstanley@rmrf.net>]

Yes, it's called NIS.  Used for a central user and group database.  Still
a pain to manage to be sure, but much easier than updating that many
machines....

kernel panic:  cannot read from /dev/caffeine.

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity"
  -- Henry David Thoereau

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dennis Brown wrote:

>     I have pondered many Linux setups for schools and one problem has
> always came up: How do you login in the lab? Since kids login on
> different machines each time they have to be authorized on every machine
> they go in. But becuase in schools the user database can reach from 300
> -> 2000 people it would be a tedious job to update each machine
> individualy. Is there a way that the schools/companies can update the
> user database from a central server? Thanks,
> 
> Kevin Brown.
>