I am new to LTSP, so please bear with me.

On Wed, 4 May 2011, at 11:04, Janno Sannik wrote:

> I have ~30 thunk clients in hotellrooms. I would like all the users to 
> be "guest". That means their session (and history, user data) lives only 
> until logout/reboot.
> 1) Should I create some kind of startup file that runs on every logon 
> that flushes the user home directory or is there some more elegant way?

If your security requirements/standards allow it you can use either 
login or logout scripts (make sure they cannot be changed by the 
users, though). An elegant way might be using ramdisks. If you allow 
every user 100 MB you need 3 GB for 30 clients. Sounds feasible.

> 2) Is there a workaround for not having separate user for every thin client?

As much as I understand it the problem is not the users but their home 
directories. You could login all clients with the same username but 
you need separate directories otherwise many programs don't work well 
or not at all through ssh -X.

Also note that on Ubuntu clients may access each others files if they 
share the username.

HTH,

-- 
-- Andreas


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