On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Zoilo wrote: > On Tuesday 03 September 2002 18:17, John_Cuzzola wrote: > > *** Well thinking about it a little further another possibility (without > > running local apps) is simply to create a change rooted environment for > > Netscape that doesn't contain an /etc/passwd file. You can then use the > > chroot command to launch netscape. > > I was thinking in that direction too, but I am afraid that it may turn out > to be quite complicated. > > For a small kiosk-application, only running Netscape or similar, I would > still need (a link to) the Netscape binary, icewm, all the necessary > libraries, icons etc etc; and I need to configure everything to work properly > with the chrooted pathnames.
*** I'm not sure but I didn't think it would be that hard. All you need is Netscape in a chrooted environment. ICE and the rest would be left alone. > > But I think it's the only way to go if I run apps on the server. > > That's why I was thinking of running local apps on the client, since all that > work has essentially been done there already. Assuming that the visible file > system is then limited to the ltsp root-fs (/opt/ltsp/i386), am I correct? > > Z. > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
