[K12OSN] NEW HOWTO - Setup a Simple Application Server - PART V

[Huck]

Hey Jim...

When ya get this going...slip it into the hands of whoever puts out 
K12ltsp 5.0 will ya =)
Often when I read this list I feel that I need to go back to school 
myself...
a lot of stuff just goes WAY over my head in terms of implementation...

--Huck

Jim Kronebusch wrote:

>>For real cool admin stuff, collect all your users in a LDAP 
>>db server (we populated 1100 users in de dbase with al little 
>>AWK scripting) Give them with apg generated passwords and let 
>>all servers authenticate to that LDAP server.
>>
>>Next use pam_mkhomedir module and the aforementioned auto ssh 
>>keygeneration trick in the x init.d  map and your users will 
>>automatically be setup with there first login.
>>    
>>
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>Sounds like this suggestion coupled with the last few would make a great
>addition to the How To site of Gavin's!  This could really bring
>everything together.  I wish I knew more about this stuff because I
>would love to help.  For me central authentication is a big mystery yet,
>so I am just running every thing off of a single quad processor box.
>But splitting them up would be great.  
>
>My idea that I want to get figured out is to have a central
>authentication server running from sort of database backend (mysql
>maybe, or LDAP but not sure how to tie to a database), then I could tie
>our desktop database for managing students and families right into it.
>So I when a new student enters the school and Admissions enters them
>into the database, the random alphanumeric password is generated with a
>unique username, which updates the server backend automatically, then
>all other server receive their updates from the main auth server, home
>folders generate with keys and mail accounts automatically setup, the
>web portal which is also tied to the auth server would update, and all I
>have to do is.....oh yea...nothing :-)
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