Re: [CentOS] Simple solution for small network in a school ?

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:

Hi,

I have to install a small network in a school in a nearby village. The network will be Linux-only, one server and fifteen desktops. Here's the idea.

1. Authentication should be managed centrally on the server.
2. User home directories should also be on the server.
3. Users should all have disk quotas, something like 1 GB per user.
4. Some shared directories should be read/write for a defined group of

users (teachers) and read-only for others.

We have a similar setup with OpenLDAP and NFS. Works OK, except all directories defined are home to the users, and only their owner can read them. Adding users or changing passwords is an admin-only hassle, because we have never found a user management tool for LDAP which was convincingly able to be given away to teachers.

-- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina