On Thursday, 14 August, 2014 11:00 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> 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
>
>
For anyone who needs screenlocking functionality on their clients, I was 
able to get this working using updated packages from this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~bennabiy/+archive/ubuntu/ldm-test?field.series_filter=trusty

Thank you everyone on IRC for the helping to get this to work for me!

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