User management with SSSD on shared laptops

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...

User management rethought

A quick search on Freshmeat.net returns tens of user management systems for linux. Quite a few of them are based on ldap and many manage the old /etc/passwd -file, some are built on completely different principles. Many of these tools seem to have one thing in common...