[K12OSN] K12ltsp V 4.1.1 & new(er) kernels problem
"Terrell Prudé, Jr."
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Sun Mar 6 22:49:31 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 15:55, "Terrell Prudé, Jr." wrote:
>
>
>>I'm
>>assuming a "clean install" of K12LTSP here, which is the only way I
>>really trust.
>>
>>
>
>You can do a 'mostly clean' install if you have /home on a separate
>partition. Just don't reformat /home, and patch up your
>passwd/shadow/group/gshadow files to include all the old users
>above uid 500. There can still be some problems with things
>that expect a new dotfile format in home directories.
>
>
>
>>For those who have implemented LDAP authentication
>>infrastructures, use K12LTSP only for running apps (no file/printer
>>serving, etc., /home is NFS-mounted on a dedicated server), and tell the
>>K12LTSP server to authenticate against LDAP, then upgrading an entire
>>K12LTSP system is not nearly as risky a proposition. That's, BTW, why
>>I'm currently studying LDAP. :-) I need to be able to set that kind of
>>thing up.
>>
>>
>
>Having this will also let you run a test system with the next version
>concurrently, accessing the same home directories so you'll know
>what to expect.
>
>
>
Agreed on both points.
--TP
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