RE: Automatizing installation on several machines

1998-11-29 Thread Leandro Dutra
> But since I'm not very experienced with networking my problem is: how > to install the /home directories on the server (any user should be > able to work on every machine which is available, so I think it > would be the best way to export the user directories with NFS). Besides exporting

Re: Automatizing installation on several machines

1998-11-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, chmod o=x is probably sensible anyway because then when users do a > chmod +r some-file, it *will* be readable, which is probably what people > expect when they do a chmod +r. > Most of my users will not have any Unix knowledge at all, so this won

Re: Automatizing installation on several machines

1998-11-27 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Martin wrote: > Beware, that you will also block user homepages for a httpd. If you > want homepages, the make the chmod weaker. chmod o=x /home/* Or get the users to put the homepages in a different directory (but that'd require more work, as you'd have to set that directory up). Actuall

Re: Automatizing installation on several machines

1998-11-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JT" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JT> At last: it's unwanted that the different users can see (read, JT> write, delete ...) each others data files -- is there a way to do JT> that without any action on the users' side? Set umask 002 in /etc/profile. You can also block acce

Automatizing installation on several machines

1998-11-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Dear all, I want to install Debian on a couple of brand new workstations (15) and servers -- is there a convenient way to automatize the installation procedure in some way? The workstations should get their home directories from one of the servers. Would it be advantageous to install the differen