I ended up setting up a new user, logging into that user, setting everything the way I wanted it to be, and then copying that home folder into /etc/skel. It seems to work okay, except that I have to figure out how to mount a Resources folder I set up on the server on the fat clients. Hopefully, I'll figure that out this weekend.
It also seems that students can't change their passwords through LDAP, even though I think I activated pam_passwd and pam_ldap (or the actual packages those are close to the right names for). Again, a weekend project. Todd On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:18 PM, David Groos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Todd, > sigh... Managing students' computer-choices on classroom computers is, I > think, currently the biggest un-met need of teachers using Edubuntu. Back > when Hardy/Jaunty was coming out, sbalneav and others worked very hard to > bring sabayon up to working and it did work very well in Jaunty. It was > GREAT! When I upgraded to Lucid I found that it didn't work and sbalneav > was no longer working with Edubuntu so I stopped using it. As explained by > Jordan M., the design of Sabayon is inherently complex and difficult to > maintain. > > Then, Edubuntu Menu Editor came around thanks to many, especially Marc G. at > Revolution Linux, effort. I wasn't able to get it to work but I think that I > didn't try hard enough as Marc is right there to help as needed to make it > work. I'm not sure of it's current status but I would recommend giving it a > try especially because of Marc's support. Check here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Documentation/Edubuntu-menueditor for more > info. > > I always encourage people to join and post to all 3 lists because each list > has specific and not always overlapping expertise, thus also include: > [email protected], [email protected]. So, > might want to post to more lists to get a wider audience. > > To manage classroom computers I tried iTALC for many many years (well, 2.5 > years but it seems more) with little satisfaction and then sch-scripts, a > series of scripts that do much of what iTALC does, reliably and more > responsively. Sch-scripts is pretty much in beta mode if you aren't a Greek > school for which they were designed, but they work well enough for me at > this time. > > I'll be interested to hear how you end up addressing this need--please post > your experiences to the list. I too will probably be trying to set up > edubuntu menu editor soon, as well. Will share what I find out. > > David G > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Todd O'Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> When I try saving a profile after doing some tweaks to Google Chrome, I >> get the >> >> A fatal error has occurred. You can help us fix the problem by >> sending the log in /etc/sabayon/sabayon-debug-log.conf to >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org >> >> error message. Unfortunately, there is no such file. In fact, there's >> just a profiles directory in /etc/sabayon. >> >> Any ideas how I might debug this or anyone have suggestions about how >> to customize users' experiences without Sabayon? >> >> Thanks! >> Todd >> >> -- >> 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
