A few months ago we had a blog entry about shared and personal laptops in schools. The goal of shared laptops is basically that they should behave mostly like shared thin clients: it should not matter which a computer any user chooses to work with. He should simply be able to pick any machine, login [...]
The goal of this setup is to have OpenLDAP running so that users can authenticate to it using pam_ldap and nss-ldap can get user and group information.
All the schools function pretty much the same way. And this opens a huge potential to simplify the user management tools. One does not need to support every possible environment, but the user management flow used in the schools. I’m becoming certain, that the whole user management concept for schools can be rethought to make the whole process intuitive and take the pain away.All the schools function pretty much the same way. And this opens a huge potential to simplify the user management tools. One does not need to support every possible environment, but the user management flow used in the schools. I’m becoming certain, that the whole user management concept for schools can be rethought to make the whole process intuitive and take the pain away.All the schools function pretty much the same way. And this opens a huge potential to simplify the user management tools. One does not need to support every possible environment, but the user management flow used in the schools. I’m becoming certain, that the whole user management concept for schools can be rethought to make the whole process intuitive and take the pain away.
