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Sibley LAN success



Hi everyone,

Well, thanks to some help from Ben Kochie this afternoon, my server at
Sibley can see the outside world (and can be seen too). I've got working
DNS, dhcp, and everything is cruising along. Now all I have to do is get
Samba and NIS going. We've got an open house for all of the parents next
Mon. so I'd like to be able to turn the computers on for them to walk by
and see.

I plan on using a generic 'student' login most of the time when I bring
a class into the lab. I really don't want to mess with administering
individual accounts for everyone. I REALLY don't want to!

I need to be able to lock those student accounts down really tight. I'd
don't want them having shell access (XDM here I come) or anything. I
don't even want them to be able to set bookmarks in Netscape. Any
students who are helping me with the network or are interested in
programming or something will get their own logins with more privileges,
but I can't have people screwing up these machines.

Does anyone have any specific hints about locking these machines down.
Other than the obvious ones I guess. I just figure that I won't think of
everything. I need to do some reading to find out more about xdm and
such. Anyway, any hints would be appreciated.

-Tim

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