On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Joe Auerbach wrote:

Here's an issue worth mentioning.  I brought this up a while ago, but
I don't know if I was clear.


I've got 2 categories of people running off the same ltsp machine
here.  One group (we'll call them a) are doing text based grunt work
on a server in hte office.  The other (broup b) will need actual
desktop access as well as the text based interface.

I can easily set the other group up and I have them set up now
(screen_01 is a telnet screen and screen_02 is startx).  However, my
trouble is setting up the first group alongside them.
Is there a way I can set screens by group or mac address?  Mac address
1 gets screen_01 telnet and no screen_02 startx?


My other option would be to just shut down x for them.  for example,
default them in their bash_profile or somehting similar to close x.  
So they both get the startx screen, but when group A logs into the
startx screen it drops down to a shell anyway.
Thoughts?

I just realized that I'm not sure I even have a solution for the group b
people.  Check this out.  groub b logs in.  they get a desktop.  they
ctrl-alt-f1 and get a shell.  Fine.  Now they have to ssh to the
server.  Or they get a telnet and they still have to ssh to the server.

Is there a way to set up the telnet based login to have one command run
(the ssh) while the desktop has the normal gnome login?


Joe
this seemed like a good a good idea to us, but was a diaster.
Now everybody gets an X login
The telnet-folk get an xterm without a window manager
The desktop-folk get a desktop.

It's now trivial to autologin, swap desktops and terminal sessions, do screen 
savers. The entire admin is miles easier this way.

Saddly I actually need them to have a command line login in some way and a terminal emulator won't allow the function keys to perform properly. Is that how yours is set up? It sounds as if your terminal people are just using a terminal emulator. is that hte case? If not, then how do they log into startx and not get a graphical desktop environment?



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joe auerbach
systems administrator
pcb / rossman and co
614-523-4150
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