[K12OSN] Ubuntu thoughts...

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:11, Dean Mumby wrote:

> It seems we are always crusading for the same thing (lol)
> 
> I just installed the first beta of smeserver7 and I have to say its 
> looking good. I also have the centos version of k12ltsp and was able to 
> get that box authenticating against the samba domain on the smeserver 
> with no hassle at all. the only snag at this point is for some reason 
> the k12ltsp box is not resolving the primary group of the users. I am 
> creating the user home dirs locally  using pam_mkhomedir  , I think just 
> mapping the home dir on the smeserver to a dir on k12ltsp would be 
> sufficient.  So essentially with all authentication against the 
> smeserver we are almost there.

The ideal thing would be to munge the user management templates/scripts
on the SME side to push the right things into LDAP so the LDAP/samba
setup would work. And in some cases like squidguard or an email
server you might want an SME box to authenticate as a client.

> I was wondering though how you handle having a server off-line ? Some 
> sort of caching of user info so as to prevent the server (k12ltsp) 
> becoming unusable ?

If it could update the logins in LDAP, that could be replicated to
backup servers.  However, if the box serving the home directories
is down you are dead anyway.

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   Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com