Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP FatClient - make home directory not persistent

2016-08-23 Thread Chris Ditrich
Thank you Alkis! for that script I've been looking for, now I should be able to solve my problem if not I will get back to you ;) cheers, Chris On 23.08.2016 14:30, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > Hi Chris, > > one good way to implement this would be with an nbd-server cow export > for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP FatClient - make home directory not persistent

2016-08-23 Thread Chris Ditrich
Hi Valtteri, yes, I've been thinking about using 'kiosk' but it not exactly matches my profile to be honest my configuration is a little bit weird ;) the idea is to have configuration on the server and manage it from the server (using puppet maybe) so I will not have to rebuild ltsp image

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP FatClient - make home directory not persistent

2016-08-23 Thread Chris D
Hello * I have about 100 fat clients in production environment which have the same configuration The configuration is made with one user account and I auto-login each fat client to this account but I want to prevent users from making changes to configuration, because now home directory is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP FatClient - make home directory not persistent

2016-08-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Chris, one good way to implement this would be with an nbd-server cow export for /home/template-user. The script that mounts home directories is /usr/share/ldm/rc.d/X01-localapps, but it would be best to create another script, e.g. X00-mount-home-template. I'm available for hire if you need

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP FatClient - make home directory not persistent

2016-08-23 Thread Valtteri Suojanen
Hi You did not mention your users or anything about how they use the client devices . Autlogin on 100 device sounds like a kiosk environment to me. And preventing changes sounds like a read only filesystem. There is a screen script in ltsp package called 'kiosk' that creates a temporary session