Re: Linux in a School envrionment

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I agree in part ... if Linux had an administration tool simmilar to
>Nwadmin it would be a smashing success ... but the true beauty of NetWare is
>NDS powered by a btreive database engine ... giving you the ability to set
>file rights for a single user ( not group dependent) and span file rights
>accross

File permissions are stored in the directory?  Or just access to volumes?

>multiple servers ... something that is very hairy if at all practicle to
>do with Linux right now .....

I don't think you can do that with Linux,  unless maybe via something like the
Andrew file system or CODA (neither of which I, or anyone I've met, understands
or has used).

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