[K12OSN] Managing identical logins...

[Doug Simpson]

One thing to consider, though, using class or computer names, especially 
with 7th and up is that the kids will realize they can 'share ' work 
easily and that will happen.

We use individual usernames for every user.
More work once a semester, but worth it in my opinion. . .


Robert Arkiletian wrote:

> Tom Lisjac wrote:
>
>> We have a final issue to resolve before we can deploy the system that
>> involves the way the school manages it's users. Rather then logging in
>> individually, the kids all use the same class name... which creates
>> instance collisions for Mozilla and OpenOffice. There are a lot of
>> classes and I'm using winbind/pam to do domain authentication and
>> create the home directories dynamically. This makes it easy for the
>> Windows oriented admins to manage the class accounts and helped us
>> sell the Linux approach in the first place.
>>
>>  
>>
>
> At my school I took a black  marker and wrote 1,2,3,... on all the 
> computer monitors. The login can be comp1, comp2, ... and the 
> passwords are all the same. No problems with Mozilla or OOo.
>