Gideon Romm wrote:
You actually want PAM to be server-side, because your home directories
need to be created server-side. I don't have code handy, but pam_mount
should mount things in order as they appear in its configuration file.
So, you should be able to say:
mount a tmpfs on
Marius,
You actually want PAM to be server-side, because your home directories
need to be created server-side. I don't have code handy, but pam_mount
should mount things in order as they appear in its configuration file.
So, you should be able to say:
mount a tmpfs on /tmp/$USER-tmpfs
mount a
Gideon Romm wrote:
Then, the other piece is to make a temporary homedir for each user
account that logs in that is based upon your golden one. Well, that can
be done with pam_mount and unionfs. the tmpfs overlay can either be
something created on the fly, or it can be something static that
Marius,
Not sure if you are aware, but ldm these days has a Guest login
feature. You can set usernames/passwords in lts.conf for each machine
when the Guest login button is pressed, or the user can enter their own.
This should solve teachers vs students issue.
Then, the other piece is to make
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:26:40PM +0200, Marius Flage wrote:
Jordan Erickson wrote:
I would propose a temporary user of sorts that pulls from the
skel/template you created, does a pam makehomedir or whatever it is,
and removes it upon logout. This way, you have separate user accounts
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:53:20 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net
wrote:
I would propose a temporary user of sorts that pulls from the
skel/template you created, does a pam makehomedir or whatever it is,
and removes it upon logout. This way, you have separate user accounts
Hi there
I've asked this question a couple of times on the IRC channel and mostly
just gotten friendly abuse for having such a bad design as to only use
one user account. So instead I ask this question here, where I can
properly outline the reason why only one user account and also explain
the
Marius,
I concur with this type of setup, though my thinking is that having a
single user account with multiple simultaneous logins isn't a very good
idea since multiple things are happening at the same time, which might
confuse the server/PAM/applications. I might be wrong, but it just seems
Jordan Erickson wrote:
I would propose a temporary user of sorts that pulls from the
skel/template you created, does a pam makehomedir or whatever it is,
and removes it upon logout. This way, you have separate user accounts
for each login, and changes can be wiped upon user logout.
The
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:03:52PM -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote:
... it shouldn't be shunned, it should be explored,
developed and secured appropriately.
There are many, many, MANY problems with this idea:
1) Most programs: gnome, firefox, openoffice.org, etc., all have configs that
they
Scott Balneaves wrote:
All this having been said, I suspect that either pam-mount, or, probably more
succinctly, pam-script (since you'd really want to do more that just mount:
you
also want to create the tmp area, etc.) would probably be the way to go.
pam-script can be found at:
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 23:30 +0200, mar...@flage.org wrote:
Scott Balneaves wrote:
All this having been said, I suspect that either pam-mount, or, probably
more
succinctly, pam-script (since you'd really want to do more that just mount:
you
also want to create the tmp area, etc.)
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:26:40PM +0200, Marius Flage wrote:
Jordan Erickson wrote:
I would propose a temporary user of sorts that pulls
from the skel/template you created, does a pam
makehomedir or whatever it is, and removes it upon
logout. This way, you have separate user accounts
mar...@flage.org wrote:
Scott Balneaves wrote:
All this having been said, I suspect that either pam-mount, or, probably more
succinctly, pam-script (since you'd really want to do more that just mount:
you
also want to create the tmp area, etc.) would probably be the way to go.
pam-script
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 03:04:17 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net
wrote:
[snip]
For simplicity and ease of
user management (the school has no permanent IT personnel to handle
day-to-day maintenance), we only use one shared account for all students.
The implications of this
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