Now that the dimwit catagory disappeared, my connectivity in advogato's trust metric dropped signifigantly. So this is what happened:
When I saw Sopwith signing on with his spiffy yellow dimwit rating, I got really psyched. I tried to find as many people in the #gnome channel who certified me before and get'em to certify me as a dimwit, just so that I can get the spiffy yellow too...
Now that this rating is gone, all the people who certified me as a dimwit (and an apprentice before), their certification to me disappeared.
This makes me a bit unhappy. Oh well.
On the other hand, I started my first sysadmin job! I'm working at my high school (3rd year student, working part-time) and getting paid hourly. This is really cool. We have a cluster of 6 machines and I've RedHat 6.1 running on all of them with Helixcode GNOME. RedHat 6.1 is not so good, though, so we're gonna be burning a Zoot, 6.2 CD tomorrow, along with LinuxPPC-2000 and BeOS 5 PE.
- Adrian : Thanks for helping me with the Kerberos stuff.
- Now that Zoot should have built-in Kerberos support, I might use Kerberos as my authentication method/service.
- Any sysadmins here care to recommand a newbie sysadmin on what's the best authentication service to run on a small scale lab/cluster of 6 machines? NIS? Kerb+LDAP? SMB? (about SMB.. I figured that I have ORA's SAMBA book and if i have it all figured out, printing, file sharing and authentication would be all handled by one single package)
- Does all this make sense? I plan on having a mail system or at least an internal one (within cluster only) if I can't get the go-ahead from the tech. department...
[Shameless plug for Helixcode GNOME]
It's great. If you run a distro that is supported, you really should try it.