Re: [seul-edu] youngsters logging in

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

At 08:41 PM 05/09/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I too have used a single user login with a simple password for young 
>students for quite some time.  I would suggest that this is much easier 
>than the much more complicated and elegant solutions.   My school uses 
>mostly Macintosh Computers with students and Apple have a very user 
>friendy front end called Mac Manager.  This presents the user with a 
>Login Window with all available users names are presented, they only need 
>to select it and enter their password and they are taken to their home 
>directory on the server.  I am not up to developing this but I am sure 
>someone out could put this in a program.  The Mac program is much more 
>complicated than this but this simple program would be helpful.

This actually already exists -- take a look at kdm.

Michael