Hi Gilles, I have your same needs and ....the same problems (with Edubuntu 10.10). I need to use Sabayon but it works in very unpredictable manner: sometimes works and sometimes there is no manner to add a profile to a group/user. At the end it's not reliable and I'm very frustrated since I have a school computer room with LTSP (10 thin-clients) with 200 user.
I hope that someone help us! Giacomo, from Italy. 2011/2/4 Gilles Dubois <[email protected]>: > Hi everybody ! > I would like to submit you a first problem. > First I'm French but I know that sometimes linux doesn't like accentuated > letters, and I avoid using them systematically, not to have problems with US > scripts confused by these very decorative characters. > But since I'm working for French speaking people I continue to use as much > as possible my own language for interfaces. > My problem is to define 'profiles' (mainly for the menu) and to associate > these profiles to groups so that anybody who connects from a certain group > will have the menu associated with this group. > I first tried to use Sabayon, but first interface wasn't clear and second it > didn't work at all. Now Sabayon is completely out of duty and refuses to > work at all. > So I decided to use the combination MenuEditor + ProfileManager. > I followed the tutorial and had to discover by myself a lot of > inconveniences and special things not documented. > Although you log in as superuser, you cannot save anywhere on the disk. > In fact saving of a custom menu is possible only in your home directory. > Now ProfileManager's lookup will never find anything except what is in > /etc/edubuntu-menueditor/. > And in fact it should be in some subdirectory of this directory (not > documented). > MenuEditor save a menu as a compressed file. > Fact that you HAVE TO add correct extension .tar.gz or not isn't completely > clear. > In any case it seems to work in both cases. > Fact that you have to unpack this archive first isn't documented too. > In any case with or without specific extensions, unpacked or not unpacked, > it seems that ProfileManager is satisfied with ANYTHING which is in any > subdirectory of /etc/edubuntu-menueditor and creates a listing file > accordingly. > Now the fact that ProfileManager seems to be satisfied doesn't prove that it > will do the job. > And in fact it doesn't. > Once the association created, always the FULL menu appears to any user > connected belonging to the group or not. > And this behavior isn't changed if you reload the server and reload the > client. > I'm testing this for several hours now without any success. > I posted something similar to a French Forum but without any answer. > So I would be thankful if somebody here can help me a little. > Thanks. > Gilles > > > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
