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Classroom net administration
To all:
In a previous message I asked
about the inability of my old 486's to run Xconfigurator. Y'all were correct
that the problem was in the video system. I'm working on getting some more
up-to-date video cards. Thanks!
All of
you seem far ahead of me in Linux knowledge. Can somebody please give
suggestions about the following?
1. I now have 6 Pentiums and a 486 server working in my
classroom. I would like to set up on each machine a user id with math software
on it, and a separate id with games and internet. (I hope to eventually give
each student a unique id.) As SU, is there a way to customize Gnome so that
different user id's would have different menus giving access to only the
programs I want them to have?
2. I want to control access from the server so the kids can't
play games when they are supposed to be learning math. I have been told that NIS
is the way to go, but when I try to set it up it says I need to compile it. When
I try, I get various configuration errors and don't have a clue what to do. Is
there some easy to follow script or documentation showing how to set up NIS or
some comparable access control system?
Thanks,