On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 21:47, Baeseman, Cliff wrote: > What I currently do is to have a admin account for each group that I have on > the server. Say > for instance teachers, grades 1-3, grades 4-6 etc. Say for instance I need > to deploy a > application to the teachers. I login to the teachers account and put a icon > on that desktop. I > then run a deploy script if I want it to show immediately. The deploy script > copies over > the .kde directory and the .mozilla directory in each teachers home > directory. This also > occurs once a day for all groups at midnight as scheduled by a cron job. > Even if a student > has messed with a setting this stuff will revert back at midnight. If I want > to refresh all > desktop settings for a group I run the deploy script and it will revert > everyone right back > immediately. > > I do not run LTSP but my environment is thin client and nearly the same. I > would see > no reason that it would not work the same under a LTSP deployment.
Cliff, Look at the desktop icon pushing script for K12LTSP distro. I think with appropriate script changes you may be able to make different scripts from this to achieve group icon push. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
