Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:03:27 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merging 2 servers? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912130858560.55838-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912130453010.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > One thought is that seperate machines help ensure teachers' privacy > in case they mess up permissions tests won't get leaked before > they're supposed to. This was one idea that I had. Only teachers OR students are hosed if something goes wrong, not both. > Then again having them all on one machine helps because students > and teachers could be put in class groups to allow them access > to common areas. This was one of the reasons that I began to consider the merge. We have two compies of a web-based password changing program, two copies of TWIG (web email program), two copies of the email address lookup CGI that I wrote, and so on. > Perhaps keeping the split, but making sure that teachers have logins > on the student machine would be the most flexible, you can probably > use NIS to keep the passwords and account information sync'd > for the teacher accounts. Is it possible to use NIS to sync only part of the password database? Is it possible to use NIS to sync usernames, passwords, and home directories (which would be shared via NFS) and then change the shell depending on the server? Specifically, I'm thinking of using /usr/bin/false for their shells on one server and then adding a "programming server" which allowed them to use bash, zsh, tcsh, etc. so that they can test out programs without being able to crack at the server quite so easily. Thanks for the pointers so far! Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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