6.05.2011 21:59, Andreas Schamanek kirjutas: > I am new to LTSP, so please bear with me. Well, I installed it 1.5 months ago for the first time. So really green here too :) > 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. > Yeah. Actually there are 65 of them as it turns out. The server is packed with 12gb ram so i could probably steal some of it (the linux ltsp is virtual machine). Thanks for suggestions. I will start preping the users and ask again if something comes up. >> 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, Yeah. I agree actually. I made batch script that generates required users from dhcp mac list and adds users and also maps autologin on ltsp.conf.
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