[K12OSN] Re: Pgina...

[Shawn Powers]

Josiah Ritchie said:
> OOHhh... I hadn't heard about that. I'm seeing this coming in very
> handy. How do you point My Documents to a drive letter? I think I
> remember seeing the drive mapping in p-gina and thinking, "that's easy".

My quick process:

0) (zero, because this step is an afterthought, and I didn't want to
renumber...)  the pgina authentication options are huge.  I've NEVER
gotten the NIS plugin to work, and it's hosed my computer trying.  The
pgina_pam plugin is super simple to compile, and runs with almost no
footprint on the linux server.  It works great.  I think the LDAP plugin
is the most robust, but I don't have LDAP anywhere, so it's of no use to
me.  I use pgina_pam.
1) Make account on local computer and log in as that user.  "asdf" is
usually my account name. :)
2) Set up everything the way you want it.  Homepage on IE, background, "My
Documents" pointed to z: (you have to temporarily mount z: by hand, and
then right click on "My Documents", and set the location to z:)
3) Make any shortcuts you want, etc, etc, etc
4) Log out.
5) Log in as administrator
6) Right click on "My Computer" and click properties
7) In the advanced tab (I think) the middle button is profiles, click that
button
8) highlight the profile for the account you just modified
9) click "copy to" and type in:  "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User"
10) It will say, "are you sure, that exists"  -- say yes.
11) Now, any newly created users will have that setup.  I set pgina to NOT
save profiles for created users, so everyone is reset to that setup on
login.
12) NOTE: This does not manage security.  I hate windows security. 
Deepfreeze is a nice commercial solution to the problem, but I have no
idea the best way to manage the security aspect.  On my 2003 terminal
server, since it's just staff this year, I'm not TOO worried about folks
messing with stuff -- but again, I hate windows.

Hope that helps!

-Shawn

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