[K12OSN] K12ltsp V 4.1.1 & new(er) kernels problem

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 15:55, "Terrell Prudé, Jr." wrote:
> I'm 
> assuming a "clean install" of K12LTSP here, which is the only way I 
> really trust.

You can do a 'mostly clean' install if you have /home on a separate
partition.   Just don't reformat /home, and patch up your
passwd/shadow/group/gshadow files to include all the old users
above uid 500.  There can still be some problems with things
that expect a new dotfile format in home directories.

> For those who have implemented LDAP authentication 
> infrastructures, use K12LTSP only for running apps (no file/printer 
> serving, etc., /home is NFS-mounted on a dedicated server), and tell the 
> K12LTSP server to authenticate against LDAP, then upgrading an entire 
> K12LTSP system is not nearly as risky a proposition.  That's, BTW, why 
> I'm currently studying LDAP.  :-)  I need to be able to set that kind of 
> thing up.

Having this will also let you run a test system with the next version
concurrently, accessing the same home directories so you'll know
what to expect.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com