[K12OSN] "Guest" accounts
Angus Carr
acarr at saskforestcentre.ca
Tue Jun 8 16:44:28 UTC 2004
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> Around Tue,Jun 08 2004, at 10:23, Doug Simpson, wrote:
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>>>For the general use accounts, set up accounts based on the computer not
>>>user. This way, when they sit down at computer #4 for instance, the login
>>>would be computer4 and whatever password you set. Make all the general
>>>accounts use the same password. Then the ones that have their own
>>>personal account, can use their own login.
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>>>If there's 20 computer in the lab, the usernames would be computer1
>>>computer2 computer3 and etc and you could use a simple password like
>>>ComputerLab! (caps and ! included for cracking avoidance.)
>>>
>>>Then you mark the general usernames and passwords on the from of the
>>>computer. This way, no matter who sits down there, they can use the
>>>computer, including the ones with their own account.
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>We use 'orange','apple','strawberry',....
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>No password. just enter the fruit,then enter.
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If you are working with the young, then you could then put a picture at
the terminal of the fruit (or jungle animal) and match the picture with
user pictures provided by the login manager (kdm does this. I think gdm
does too...). Then you can skip the students having to remember how to
spell "passionfruit"... Always a problem for my kids ;-).
Angus Carr.
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