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

[Kevin Brown <dennis.brown@sympatico.ca>]

My school is a little different. The teachers don't care but the admins do. One
time the admin got made at me for changing the screen resolution on an old
PS/1!!! Think what they would do if I formated an HD and reinstalled the OS :-).
I am afraid what they'd do if they found out that I am the one who shuts off the
lab. But the nice thing is the teachers don't mind, but as long as it works for
them (I actualy formated a hard drive and reinstalled Win3.1 on an old 286. The
teacher loved what I did but if the techie found out, things wouldn't be nice).

Kevin Brown.

Jason Mellen wrote:

> If your school is anything like mine then the teachers in charge would be
> the best bet. The administration doesn't really care as long as it does what
> they want and the board won't ever care as long as there are no problems. In
> any case, a teacher talking to admin is much better than a student. Hope
> that helps.
>
> Jason Mellen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> Of Kevin Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:57 AM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] How would the kids login in the labs?
>
> Harry McGregor wrote:
>
> > 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,
> >
> > You would mostlikely want to use NIS, yes, it's clear text passwords
> > (hashed), but it works rather well.  Our student database at corbett is
> > about 800 students, and it works just fine.
> >
> > We are using GDM for the login manager, and have two NIS servers (main,
> > and a slave server as a backup).
> >
> > We are using NFS for the /home and a few other things, and will migrate to
> > total nfs root as soon as we can redo the wiring for the lab.
> >
> >                         Harry
> > > Kevin Brown.
>
> Your school already has Linux running? I am only 13 years old and I still
> want
> to know who I should start convincing first. Whether it be the teachers in
> charge (who only know what they really need to), the principal or the board.
> I
> think our school would be A LOT more stable if Linux was the alternate OS
> (we
> have techies comming in once a week and are VERY stressed, and I can proove
> that :). I am sure I could find hundreds of volunteers that would jump at
> helping me so all I have to do it start prooving this is what has to be
> done.
>
> Kevin.