Thanks, Mike - that's pretty much what I was looking for.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Mike Biancaniello <[email protected]>wrote:

> Not sure where I found this and I haven't done this yet, but it may be what
> you need:
>
> http://oer.aptivate.org/wiki/Classroom_LTSP_Configuration#Guest_User_Accounts
>
> Basically, with edubuntu ltsp, you can't have a "guest" account created and
> destroyed on the fly (at least not that I know of).   You can enable
> "LDM_GUESTLOGIN = True" in your lts.conf file, but then you have to tie that
> to an actual user configured on the server.
> What this guy did is to create 1 generic guest account (not designed for
> anyone to log into), then create a separate guest account for each client
> terminal ("guest"+mac).
> Now, each terminal can login under an account, do what they need to do,
> then you just blow it away and copy the generic guest acct.
>
> The website contains scripts to automate all of this.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Mark Ehle <[email protected]>
> *To*: edubuntu-users <[email protected]>
> *Sent*: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 9:59 am
> *Subject*: Wipe and recreate account before login
>
> Hello -
>
> At the library I work at, we are going to use Edubuntu to power our library
> catalog kiosks, running fluxbox and firefox. We would like the stations to
> automatically wipe and re-create the home directories of each user so that
> each terminal has a fresh copy of things on each startup. Plus if we make
> changes, we only have to make them at /etc/skel and then reboot the
> terminals. Or at least that's how I imagine it.
>
> Has anybody tackled this one before?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Library Mark
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