[K12OSN] Managing identical logins...

[Robert Arkiletian]

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.
>
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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.

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Robert Arkiletian
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