[K12OSN] Re: Pgina...

[Josiah Ritchie]

Thanks, that's some good little windows admin tips there. I'll be making
use of it.

JSR/

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 11:21, Shawn Powers wrote:
> 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