Central Login - and a new thread

[Mon Sagullo]

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From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Desktop Install - Central Login ??

Hi,

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Mon Sagullo wrote:
> so all the
> students can use any of the computers with the same username and password
> - without me doing this manually on all the units?

You can do it, but you should _strongly_ consider learning NIS instead.
It's relatively quick to set up and it means new accounts automatically
propogate across all machines the moment you create them on the server.

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNISHowTo

==> Thank you very much for this link.


> Any script to minimize this tedious routine would be much appreciated.

NIS (or better yet LDAP) is the real answer to this problem.  A little
reading and experimenting will make your life so much easier.

==> Another "thank you," and more to follow, am sure :-)
Your desktops are on wireless?  If they're fixed to their locations, don't
use roaming mode.  Instead, use "manual configuration", set the essid, etc.
That will work more reliably.  You can usually set the BIOS to turn the
machine on at a particular time (eg 9am) and you can add a line to
/etc/crontab like this:

00 23    * * *    root    shutdown -r now

which will shutdown every night at 23:00.

==> Am really grateful for all of these tips. Though this "manual configuration" is something I have grown accustomed to doing with my personal laptop, and a few desktops in my workplace, any additional link-to-read on how to "automate" this on the computers in our lab would be great. 

==>Another "adventure" with Ubuntu happened earlier this afternoon :-) Our other ISP's provided configurations for our static IP works fine. Their provided-for DSL modem and our Linksys WRT54Gs were happily working together. But  we are migrating to another ISP that provides a less expensive but faster connection. Before this new ISP with a different branded DSL modem (Prolink) activated our static IP, everything was fine too. But when their tech guy dropped by this afternoon with another same-brandand same-model DSL modem configured by them with the activated static IP - pffftt... :-(  Saving grace is, I made the decision to discontinue our subscription to the other ISP until the tech people of this new ISP have our new subscription humming.

==>Tomorrow, the tech people will come back for another crack at it :-)


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