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

[Michael Murray]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Adam Melancon wrote:

> 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.

I found this on the K12LTSP mailing list:  
http://www.litwiller.net/kiosk_browser/

One of the links given looks more like what you describe: 
http://k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/GDMKiosKMode

Hope this can be of use.

Michael Murray