Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:26:50AM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > > > Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > > > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > > > accounting. It's > > > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out > > > this should be > > > > <<snip>> > > > > ah, thought of that too. The problem with this is, I would have to > > create ppp over ethernet connections to the radius server. This > > shouldn't be too tricky to set up, but still a mission nonetheless. > > maybe i missed something but why would you need such a hideous > protocol like PPPoE to use radius? >
So it can be done over ethernet? Sweet. So I spose if I'm not going to do down the radius path, and a simple app to boot them off the PC, would it be a matter of killall -9 <their processes on the server>, including the NFS mount? > > Another problem will be overcoming the mental barrier for users that > > they're not in windows. Sure things like enlightenment is a bit of a > > no-brainer for end users and there are things like Star Office to cater > > for those who need MS Office.... Might be able to do half linux and half > > windows to see how things go. > > use the qvwm windowmanager, and a win95 theme for gnome. the users > will never know its not windows. > > they might notice that you don't have MS Office, but just tell them > its too expensive ;-) > :D , most of the people who are gonna be using this aren't that up with the play of computers so they'll believe anything I tell them. > a great advantage to using GNU/Linux here is it is much easier to > secure a GNU/Linux box for public use then a win* box. (yes yes > physical security, its much easier to notice someone prying a case > open and walk over and hit them with a cattle prod to make them stop. > then it is to notice them quietly installing god knows what from the > internet.) > Yeah, probably might be best going down the GNU/Linux path cause the guy I'm waiting on to write the windows app to control users' logins and logouts is dragging the chain.
