Manuals/authinstall
the login/authentication server, here from on referred to as AUTH, allows you to network your computer's login system
in effect this creates a single list of users across every linked system and stores the passwords on a central and hopefully secure location
requirements:
2 advanced computers with minux installed and a cable modem. (for dhcp and auth servers)
one basic computer, no software needed, with an ender modem and a cable modem. (the repeater)
all of them linked up with cables.
Important:
you should keep both dhcp and auth servers on "local" login, do not set the servers to network login!
You should also make sure the chunks where the servers are located are loaded at all times, if these chunks go offline so do the computers within them.
1)Installing the server software:
First, you will need to install a "dhcp server", this system is used to link the computers in one network.
this requires the first advanced computer. run the following commands:
'apt -i dhcp-server'
wait for the package to install and then restart the machine, the dhcp server should now be running in a new tab (top right) now you can install the auth server. on the second advanced computer, run the following command:
'apt -i auth-server'
2)Configure servers
on your auth server we can now create an admin user, run the following commands but replace the relevant values:
'auth-server addadmin youruser youpassword'
'label set auth-server"
'id'
remember the computer id and return to your dhcp server, log in and run the following command, change the ID to the auth's ID:
'dhcp-server auth ID' 'label set dhcp-server'
now restart the dhcp, wait for it to come online, then restart the auth.
3) installing the repeater/transmitter:
this step is optional if you want to run a more closed network, you can.
on the basic computer, run "edit startup" and add the following line:
shell.run("repeat")
save this file, restart the computer. it should now tell you how many messages it has repeated.
this computer will make every wireless modem capable of talking to the auth and dhcp servers.
4)Client installation
you can now install the auth-client on your clients and link them up.
link up your computers trough any means to the servers, thanks to the transmitter a wireless modem should work but cables can still be used.
on the client, we'll need to install some additional software for network functions and to enable networked login, run the following commands:
'apt -i auth-client'
'login set network'
'login'
log in with your network admin account. if accepted, everything works as it should. you can now:
create more users over the network at your own pleasure and log in with those users
create groups of users for network use (run "man auth-group")
register computers as owned or in the dhcp's "phonebook"/dns
use networked software such as "door" or "netfolder".
more dhcp information can be found in the manual, (run "man dhcp")
more auth-client information can be found in the manual, (run 'man auth-client')
more dhcp information can be obtained in the manual, (run 'man dhcp-server')
more auth information can be obtained in the manual, (run 'man auth-server')
more information on configuring the network can be found here