On Tuesday 05 March 2002 21:10, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:49:30PM +0100, Jo wrote:
> > You also have to think about where to put the user's home directories.
> > Maybe on yet another server on the central LAN?
>
> Isn't that a security risk, having rw mounted NFS directories? If the
> possiblity to login in different classrooms/lans is important, perhaps
> you should use rsync/cron to syncronise /home. Schools are probably a
> rather hostile environment, so security should be a priority.
>
> Since I don't have any experinces of this kind of things, take my
> advices for what they are, speculations.

That makes sense to me. It also gives sort of a backup or at least redundancy 
with the users' data duplicated on several servers.

Jo

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