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

Sun Mar 6 22:49:31 UTC 2005

Les Mikesell wrote:

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

--TP
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