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Autor: Rowland Penny
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Request for comments - training room
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 05:51:30 -0800
Bruce Ferrell <bferrell@???> wrote:

> On 12/3/18 5:22 AM, 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/YP is especially interesting for me as something long unused.
>
> At one point in my career I had to restore a plant that use a semi
> centralized NIS/YP.  I got the bright idea of putting a YP slave on
> the all the hosts and syncing those to the master.
>
> It took me a week but I found that upstream had a bug in the slave
> scripts such that they would never sync.  The bug didn't exist in
> sunos or solaris so it was unique to Linux.
>
> I've found that AD is VERY sensitive to time differences, even in a
> pure windows environment.  How Windows admins tolerate it I have yet
> to figure out.


They don't, they run time servers.

>
> The pam module, oddjob makes it somewhat better, but a bit weird.


I think you mean the red-hat pam module oddjob, its pam-mkhomedir on
Devuan

>
> The stated use of AD for resource access might be better served by
> full on Samba 4, but AD and GPOs can perform that kind of limiting


No, sorry, but I don't understand that last statement.
If you mean you can do most of them via GPO's, well no, you cannot, not
on Linux anyway.

>
> PXE boot is well known for the type of lab/classroom environment...
> Long ago, I used bootp for doing mass installs/reinstalls of OS/2.
> It was pretty well documented in the IBM Redbooks.


Ah, the good old days ;-)

Rowland