On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joe Auerbach wrote: > > Here's an issue worth mentioning. I brought this up a while ago, but > > I don't know if I was clear. > > > > I've got 2 categories of people running off the same ltsp machine > > here. One group (we'll call them a) are doing text based grunt work > > on a server in hte office. The other (broup b) will need actual > > desktop access as well as the text based interface. > > > > I can easily set the other group up and I have them set up now > > (screen_01 is a telnet screen and screen_02 is startx). However, my > > trouble is setting up the first group alongside them. > > Is there a way I can set screens by group or mac address? Mac address > > 1 gets screen_01 telnet and no screen_02 startx? > > > > > > My other option would be to just shut down x for them. for example, > > default them in their bash_profile or somehting similar to close x. > > So they both get the startx screen, but when group A logs into the > > startx screen it drops down to a shell anyway. > > Thoughts? > > I just realized that I'm not sure I even have a solution for the group b > people. Check this out. groub b logs in. they get a desktop. they > ctrl-alt-f1 and get a shell. Fine. Now they have to ssh to the > server. Or they get a telnet and they still have to ssh to the server. > > Is there a way to set up the telnet based login to have one command run > (the ssh) while the desktop has the normal gnome login?
Joe this seemed like a good a good idea to us, but was a diaster. Now everybody gets an X login The telnet-folk get an xterm without a window manager The desktop-folk get a desktop. It's now trivial to autologin, swap desktops and terminal sessions, do screen savers. The entire admin is miles easier this way. James ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
