What he said ;-).
>From what I understand, LDM is not a "real" DM, as it doesn't use XDMCP,
but a nice mix of SSH and audio/storage forwarding.
The solution is simpler and more fault-tolerant, but lacks some of those
glitzy features.
LTSP4 was XDMCP, but I'd gladly take LTSP5 over that!
Regards,
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@freegeek.org>wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:52:40PM -0400, Stile wrote:
> > I'm in the process of trying to set up a LTSP server on Ubuntu 12.04.
> > I've run into a bit of a problem. Ldm does not work for password
> > expiration. An expired password cannot be updated with ldm. It simply
> > restarts.
>
> This is a long-standing and difficult problem...
>
>
> > I filed a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/1053447 and It
> > seems Ubuntu doesn't want anything to do with it. I find that a bit
> > disturbing.
>
> That seems like a strange interpretation. Stéphane Graber described our
> plans
> for the future and suggested a possible workaround using a pre-login
> script.
>
> It's essentially unfixable given how LDM works- we would have to rewrite
> LDM
> because the ssh prompts for password expiration are inconsistant, and
> there's
> no predictible way across different versions of ssh, different versions of
> pam,
> different distros, different configurations of the aforementioned...
> there's no
> way to screen-scrape all permutations. So "wontfix" is an appropriate tag.
>
> For LTSP6 we're looking to use libpam-sshauth, which should be able to
> handle
> this properly. It's a non-trivial task; Help would be appreciated.
>
>
> > This server is going in an environment that has to maintain PCI
> > compliance. Part of complying with that standard is 90 day password
> > changes. Without the ability to update a users password, ltsp on a
> > 12.04 server is worthless in our case.
> >
> > There has to be other environments that require password expiration
> > out there. How is anyone getting around this?
>
> There are numerous workarounds- you could write an ldm hook that checks for
> password expiry, you could send people an email when their password is
> about to
> expire.
>
> I've basically just dealt with the fact that I need to manually reset
> people's
> passwords once in a while.
>
>
> So, there are some workarounds, there are some future plans for how to
> resolve
> this issue, but nothing comes easy.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant
>
>
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