Hi John, all these steps look good except for the first one, which I would think is completely unnecessary... when you later run the script to shutdown your clients you should do so as a cron job as root, the call with sudo would be just in "interactive mode" or for testing.
To start a shell script as a cron job create (with sudo) a new file in /etc/cron.d (like: shutdown_ltsp_clients), then enter something like ## Min Hour DayOfMoth Month DayOfWeek User Command ## Mo-Sa 23.50 Uhr shutdown ltsp clients 50 23 * * 1-6 root /usr/local/bin/shutdown_ltsp_clients.sh save. You dont have to do anything else, cron will update its settings automatically. As I said, it is definitely NOT a good idea to make the root account on your server have an empty password. With all the other steps you listed, this should be working and you should be able to connect to a ltsp client via ssh as root (using sudo). If it doesnt, you might have to enable public key authentication in the chroot ssh server perhaps, though I think this should be enabled by default. kind regards, Bettina Am 25.10.2012 22:31, schrieb John Hupp: > # Enable the root user account on the LTSP host and make it passwordless: > sudo passwd root (and entry of a new password is required) > sudo passwd -d root -- Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg Referat Datenverarbeitung 86135 Augsburg Tel. +49 821 598-5370 Fax +49 821 598-5407 bettina.l...@bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de http://www.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _____________________________________________________________________ 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
