Marlys.A.Nelson@uwrf.edu (06/02/91)
Does anyone know of any software (free or *very* low cost) that makes daily operations of a lab of workstations easy? What I'm looking for are solutions to problems such as process 123 on machine ABC needs to be killed and a student employee should be able to do this without root access and preferably from any workstation on net simply by saying something like "kill 123 on ABC" - ideal goal is a screen/menu interface. Kill isn't the only thing I need the students to be able to do, other things are shutdown, delete print jobs, file backup and restore, etc. Students are *not* unix-knowledgeable so *simple* is important. I need something like this and before I get too deep into trying to develop something, I was hoping others would have done something like this - this can't really be a very unique requirement. Even if what you're using isn't very sophisticated, it might be better than what I have rigged up now out of desperation and it might give me ideas if I have to do something myself. The computers are Sun 3's running SunOS 4.1.1. Also, if anybody has any knowledge of anything that can run across a net to support VAXes running VMS, I would be very interested in that too. Thanks. Marlys A. Nelson System Manager, Network Manager, Academic Computing Programmer, etc., etc. Univ of Wisconsin - River Falls River Falls, WI 54022 Internet: Marlys.A.Nelson@uwrf.edu
mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) (06/06/91)
In article <27087@adm.brl.mil>, Marlys.A.Nelson@uwrf.edu writes: > [...] What I'm looking for are solutions to problems such as process > 123 on machine ABC needs to be killed and a student employee should > be able to do this without root access Giving this sort of power amounts to giving root access. Are you trying to protect against accidents or malice? The former is moderately easy, the latter is nigh impossible. (No, I don't have any solutions for you. This is not a problem in our environment.) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu