Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2018 schrieb Rowland Penny:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 13:22:40 +0000
> g4sra <g4sra@???> wrote:
>
> > From my perspective, this topic has had some very interesting
> > contributions. Thank you all whom have contributed.
> >
> > To pick out just one as an example, I had considered NIS\YP to be (or
> > rather didn't consider because) all but defunct, and not taken it's
> > simplicity and reliability over other methods into consideration.
>
> NIS is, to all intents and purposes, defunct
>
> >
> > > Would have saved a bit of speculation and discussion had these
> > > details been provided earlier :-/
> > Intentional, only the available hardware and purpose is set in stone.
> > Too many details too early stifles creativity, the 'speculation'
> > promoted 'discussion' and raised some points that would probably not
> > have been made otherwise. ;)
> >
> >
> > So far I am getting
> >
> > Active Directory, supported by PAM or SSSD on the Client workstation
> > to control console login.
>
> You do not need sssd, it only really duplicates winbind (it even uses
> some winbind code) and what winbind doesn't do that sssd does is easily
> done by other methods e.g. Sudo
>
> >
> > Either /home mounted from the sever over NFS, or individual User
> > [home] shares over SMB. Sever directory of Training Software
> > mounted\shared similarly.
> >
> > Which yields
> >
> > Single point of User account management on the server.
> > Server resources restricted to 30 max simultaneous Users.
> > Regular backup of the sever provides protection against all User data
> > loss. Single point (well subdirectories, easy to script) for review
> > of Trainee progress by management.
> >
> > Hmm, can AD prevent simultaneous single User login on multiple
> > clients ? Somehow I have never needed AD, so lack experience with it.
>
> No it doesn't, but then neither does Linux ;-)
> If you really wanted this, I am sure it is scriptable
> As for which to use, an NFS or SMB mounted /home , most people seem to
> use NFS.

You can do it with sshd on the server side :-)


>
> >
> > Interestingly little mention of workstation BOOTP, NFS Root, Cloning
> > On Boot. Manually applying CCR's in each training room of 28+
> > workstations is going to be a pita. No one mentioned the likes of
> > Puppet, Ansible, ClusterSSH etc.
> >
>
> This is probably down to the very little information you provided, I
> also have no idea what 'Creedence Clearwater Revival' has to do with
> anything we are discussing ;-)
>
> Just what do you require ?
> Just what hardware will you have ?
>
> Rowland
>
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