From: ralph bacolod <rafiks@...>
Subject: Re: [ce-gnu-lug] Help: Need to configure the workstations for school
To: ce-gnu-lug@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 1:48 AM

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:29:21PM +0800, hard wyrd wrote:
> Questions:

> 1. What OS do the workstations use?
> 2. Will the users use the same account over various workstations? (ie.
> they can use the same username and password, even though logging in to the
> network using a different computer.)

> If the workstation is Linux. You'd be better off with OpenLDAP for
> centralized account storage. You need to have a script that will also pull
> the rc file for the user that's logging in.

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Mike Abello <md_abello@yahoo. com> wrote:

> Greetings to each and everyone,

> PEACE!

> I would like to ask help with your expertise and experience. We at
> Sacred Heart School - Jesuit Grade school Department is preparing the
> computer workstations of the students. We would like to have different
> users in which each student will have a login and a standardized desktop
> environment or feel. Not much for passwords since we don't really have
> mission-critical data that the student would use. We plan to use just
> standard text. Here are my request and i hope that you guys could help.

> 1. Could you help us with a script to create the users right away? We
> have about 1200 students to input... and

> 2. Could you help us standardize the desktop that we won't have to enter
> each user account. I think that there might be a config file there
> somewhere...

> Thanks in advance and may the source be with you! God Bless!

> Mike_A

If you have a central server ,why not just try LTSP ,this could be
easier to manage.

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