[Gnumed-devel] strategies for machine & network account set-up (and klik?)

[J Busser]

was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe

At 10:00 PM +0000 9/18/05, Horst Herb wrote:
>  > Please klik this to boost your performance:
> >   kli[c]k://somewhere-nice.org/lose-all-your-files.elf
>
> same as deb ftp://somewhere-nice.org/ ...
> or rpm -i lose-all-your-files.elf ...
>
> It doesn't really differ from any other type of binary download in terms of
> security. If you don't trust the source, don't do it.
>
> But since the majority of users are installing software on single user
> systems, it might even have a slight advantage by installing in user space as
> that user - in the very worst case, you lose the contents of your home
> directory, but not more

Is there a provision in Linux network for people to have a 
centrally-accessible profile that could govern which applications and 
data that office personnel can access, no matter what machine they 
log into? Obviously it is faster for them to run applications and to 
access data *from* the machine on which these reside but when people 
exercise the option to store document etc on a shared drive, an email 
using IMAP, it would not matter which machine they used.

To what extent would every office machine have to be configured with 
user accounts? Would people create an individual computer account for 
every member of the office staff who would use any particular 
machine, bearing in mind that some personnel either normally move 
among multiple stations, and/or may "cover" for others when off ill 
etc.?

For those personnel who require only to use a generic e.g. GNUmed 
account, could a single account profile be defined centrally, or 
would a constraint on concurrent users (or other considerations) make 
it necessary or desirable to set up GNUmed as a limited privilege 
user account on each machine?

Would it matter to GNUmed whether klik installed all the resources 
into just the user directory, versus into some shared directory or 
something root level?