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 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 is flushed upon login by a script. HTH, -Gadi On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 21:26 +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 > > for each login, and changes can be wiped upon user logout. > > The immediate problem with this is how to keep control over the > different usernames/passwords currently in use. Now it's easy just > telling all students to use "student/student" to log in. If we have to > inform them to use random usernames/passwords, then it'll quickly become > a user administration nightmare. But maybe you meant some other way of > creating the accounts..? > > It needs to be simple and predictable. > > - Marius > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations > Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of > expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry > leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf > and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 -- -------------------------------------------------------- Gideon Romm | Proud LTSP Developer l...@symbio-technologies.com Support LTSP! Buy your hardware at: www.DisklessWorkstations.com www.DisklessThinClients.com (use coupon code: LTSP5P for 5% off thin clients from DisklessThinClients.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
