remote access? was Re: [Ltsp] Trafton Academy: pilot K12LTSP installation

[Adam Melancon]

Good luck with this.  This is one of the major hurdles that was
keeping me from doing this with the library I work for.  I wanted an
automatic anonymous login for patrons who just walk in the library and
want to use the computers with no username/password.  It would have to
be something where the /home/computer1 (or whatever username is used)
would be blown out upon logout, and on login the /etc/skel directory
would be copied over to the /home/computer1 directory for a fresh
start every session.

I would love to get this to work because it would make it alot easier
to implement the LTSP in public places like libraries or schools where
you don't want/need to give everyone a username.

Last time my friend Kris and I looked at this, we were trying to alter
the /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession and PostSession scripts to make this
happen, but could not get it to work.

Alot has changed since the release we were tweaking, so it may be very
easy to do now.


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:18:42 -0500, Michael Murray <mmurray at i-55.com> wrote:

> 
> Configuration issues that come to mind: it is possible to set the
> system to log in the clients automatically for an anonymous session;
> this might be appropriate for younger students, while older students
> could be given user names and passwords and an allocation of storage
> space. Utilities exist for converting a text file of user names to
> login names and random passwords: makes it easy for the sysadmin to
> deal with a large student body. 

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