On Saturday 17 January 2004 17:46, Dylan wrote:
On Saturday 17 January 2004 18:39 pm, steve-ss wrote:
On Saturday 17 January 2004 17:12, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 17 January 2004 19:07, steve-ss wrote:
I work in an international coillege with 200 students. I'd like a whole group to login as say year9, and avoid havig to set up logins and passwords for every student.
write a script that creates accounts like student001, student002 etc and generates random passwords for each. It would take a second to run, and not much longer to write
It's also easier to check their work: all in the same directory.
and everyone has permissions to everyone else's work, making it very simple to either cheat or sabotage for others by deleting their files or changing them.
I know I'm being lazy but the fact is we have many problems with the multilple logins. I feel sure one login one student would solve our login problems.
very likely
Point taken. What about the server. Will it be able to cope with 200 logins under /home and be able to export them OK? PIV 1024Mb 80Gb-ide via nfs and nis. Any advice?
It'll be able to export them OK, you might get some bottlenecks at login and when everyone tries to open/save at the same time but it should hold up fine.
Thanks to all who helped in this and the nfs thread. It *is* slow via normally mounted nfs especxially at login time. Autofs smooths things out admirably.. Steve.