Arcade Server/Client (Draft)
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Laboratory Management Guide
Under construction.
Access to records (Draft)
Client access to the Arcade records can be blocked by putting a username in the file /home/arcade/COPY-DATABASES/debtors. There are a variety of reasons why this may be necessary, they include being in debit to the University and not completing compulsory zero credit units (e.g. plagirism).
Client Authentication (Draft)
The Arcade server has a list of usernames who are permitted to access the data. When a client is started it authenticates against this using the student's, or staff member's, username.
The usernames are stored in "/home/arcade/SERVER/password-list". This file is only modifable by the arcade user. For security reasons, it's not even readable by other users. The file is maintained by a script in JTL's file store that transfers the new version when required/daily(?).
