On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:44:02 +0100
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > No, it's not possible, as all the traffic is, indeed, coming from one box:
> > the ltsp server itself.

You know, this brings up an interesting issue that I ran into a short while
back.

I set up a Centos 5/LTSP system for a company whose users pick up their mail
from a single mailserver that's running the Squirrelmail webmail application.

To (hopefully) make my life easier I created a template user and did all of
the standard desktop configuration, then put that template user into /etc/skel
and created the real users afterward, thereby having everyone inherit my
standard template as I went.  Fine and dandy, but shortly thereafter I had the
users complain that their email was getting cross-linked.

It turned out that because I had set up Firefox as part of the standard
template, everyone was somehow getting the same cookie (or something -- I'm
guessing the cookie but don't really know)  from Squirrelmail. The effect was
that if User A and User B were both reading their email at the same time, User B
would suddenly find himself reading User A's mail and vice versa.

To fix this problem I deleted everyone's ~/.mozilla directory and set up their
Firefox from scratch, individually.  I haven't heard any more complaints about
this since, so I think that fixed it.

It seems strange to me, though, as everyone has his own username and password
on the Squirrelmail server so I never thought there would be a problem with 
collisions like that.

-- 
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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