This is easily achieved when you use an LDAP directory for the user
backend.
PHP magic and ldappasswd can be used to take care of the changing of the
passwords by local personal. In fact, the webpage you are currently
using (I developed it), can be easily adapted to handle this.
From a security point of view, knowing your environment, I would advise
to use a seperate LDAP user directory for this in a separate VLAN.
Also, knowing the environment you plan to use it in, I would carefully
experiment with the fact whether you are able to add applications to the
Openthinclient setup, as you probably need to do. Be it a great product,
this is a rather daunting task in OpenTC for linux newbies. More info on
http://openthinclient.org/Create%20a%20new%20Application%20Package?structure=Developer's%20Guide
<http://openthinclient.org/Create%20a%20new%20Application%20Package?structure=Developer%27s%20Guide>
LTSP is in this respect a bit easier, as it this requires only to simply
add an rpm or deb package.
Also checkout Thinstation with NX, it's footprint for thin clients is
amazing.
BC
On 05/15/12 18:26, Stef Roes wrote:
Hey,
I would like to use Openthinclient in our libary, but I still have 2
issues that I can't figure out.
The computers are going to be used as Internet PC's only, but they
need to be protected with a password.
And the password has to be different every time a user logs in.
So i want to make a website where the librarian can ask a new password
and print it.
The the password of the users must change to the password just printed.
After 1 hour, the user will be logged out automaticly, and the
password gets reset.
Is there a way to do this? The website, and random password generation
will not be a problem, but where/how do i reset the password without
the manager?
Stef Roes
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