On 2014-08-13, Graham Innes wrote: > I've been looking for some time for a solution for screen locking on > LTSP. We are currently using Xubuntu 12.04 fat clients but will be > moving to Xubuntu 14.04 fat clients in the next month or so. > > I understand most lockers don't work due to lack of proper PAM support > on LTSP, and that this is being worked on. Does anyone have a temporary > working solution until this is ready?
You could try backporting ltsp 5.5.2 and ldm 2.2.14, which contain a feature that populates /etc/shadow with a hash of the password, which makes PAM work somewhat. Password changes will only change the local password though, and are lost on logout, but otherwise should work ok. To enable this feature, with ltsp-client-core 5.5.2+ and ldm 2.2.14+ in the ltsp chroot/image, set in lts.conf: LDM_PASSWORD_HASH=true Other options include using remote apps for the screensaver, though that path is not well documented, or, of course, using thin clients. Both of those options can authenticate with PAM as the processes are running on the server. Long-term, I'd like to get libpam-sshauth fully functional, but there hasn't been a lot of energy to work on that for whatever reason: http://wiki.ltsp.org/wiki/Dev:LTSPPamNotes There's a lot of work left to do on that, but had proof-of-concept working almost two years ago... live well, vagrant
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