Subject: Re: Status of Multiple Users on MacOS 9
From: ME (dugan@libwais.sonoma.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 15:18:30 EST
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Brian Bergstrand wrote:
> on 2/8/2000 11:08 AM, Ian Reinhart Geiser at geiseri@msoe.edu wrote:
>
> > I remember hearing that Apple was going to release the API for multiple users
> > and remote boot of Macintosh Systems for MacOS 9. Has this happened? Will
> > this happen. Currently we have a new Macintosh Lab being installed here and I
> > really would like the added secureity of Multiple Users but we need to
> > interface with our main UNIX system.
> >
> > Are there any other systems out there that will support An At Ease/ MacLogin/
> > Multiple Users interface that would work over AppleshareIP?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -ian reinhart geiser
>
> Not sure about the Netboot stuff, but during the dev cycle of OS9 there was
> mention of Authentication plug-ins for Mac OS 9's Multiple Users. So far, I
> have heard nothing else about this. We would like this too, to use NDS for
> authentication.
For Net Booting procedure:
I tried to figure out the protocols used, and put up a web page. It is not
an official web page, and they may have modified their protocols since I
posted it, but check out:
http://libweb.sonoma.edu/mike/macnc/
-ME
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