I would like to put my 2 cents worth in with regard to having another option to use instead of NIS authorisation.
We are using a template version of 2.07 here, for workstations to run most applications locally ( except OpenOffice, which use rsh ). This is using RedHat 7.3 as the base system and I compiled a recent kernel for the clients, so they may use the newer libraries from RH7.3. Our client workstations are all 'new' machines, with heaps of RAM and probably goes against the aim of LTSP, that allows older machines to still be productive. Window manager is either KDE3, for 'power users' or WindowMaker for the others. KDE is a noisy beast on the network, and I have been moving most of the workstations back to lightweight wmaker. The main aim for using LTSP, is to reduce workstation maintenance/ install, using diskless boxes. Our experience with NIS, is that it is a real pain, when users are created or passwords are changed ( especially if shadow passwords are enabled ). Also we would like to centralise authorisation for a number of applications, ie. email, squid proxy, workstation log on, inhouse applications, etc so when a password is changed, it doesn't need to be updated in more than one spot. A quick look at LDAP, looks like it is very flexiable, ie. being able to add fields to data for a number of uses. Also there is seems to LDAP modules available for most of the common packages. We have a number of LTSP servers at various locations and if this LDAP data is able to be mirrored out to remote sites, that would be cool. If I can help in any way, to get this feature working in LTSP ( with local app support ), please let me know. Regards Doug Herbert. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
