Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:23:04PM -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > > David Burgess wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Joseph Bishay > > wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Scott Balneaves > >> wrote: > >>> Are all your students in the same primary group? Usu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Eclipse Depolyment on LTSP

2009-02-02 Thread Jim McQuillan
jam wrote: > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 04:09:08 ltsp-discuss- > requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > [snip] >> If you were using a very small set of plugins for Eclipse, you may be able >> to drive down memory costs, but that goes back to the questions about what >> types of development you'r

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Eclipse Depolyment on LTSP

2009-02-02 Thread jam
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 04:09:08 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: [snip] > If you were using a very small set of plugins for Eclipse, you may be able > to drive down memory costs, but that goes back to the questions about what > types of development you're doing. You folk do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread John Hansen
We are using LDAP as well, with the primary group for all students being ldapusers, instead of creating individual groups for each user. I recall running into this before when working with Jim Kronebusch, and after talking to him, his recommendation was to run the following: "Just do a “cd /media

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Jordan Erickson
Another option is ACLs, which works nicely if you need fine grained, multiple group permissions control: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ACLSupport (shameless plug for the howto I wrote, and coincidentally referring to right now before I read this list post ;) ) Cheers, Jordan

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:54:52PM -0700, David Burgess wrote: > I'm sure there are other solutions, but mine has been to change the > default umask to something like 007 and then if I want user tina to be > able to edit files from joe, I just adduser tina joe, then tina can > edit joe's files. T

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > > David Burgess wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Joseph Bishay >> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Scott Balneaves >>> wrote: Are all your students in the same primary group? Usually this is what

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Jim McQuillan
David Burgess wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Joseph Bishay > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Scott Balneaves >> wrote: >>> Are all your students in the same primary group? Usually this is what >>> causes >>> this. Typically, in modern Linuxes, each user sh

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HOWTO: Automated thin-client shutdown and installing NTP server for client time sync

2009-02-02 Thread Jordan Erickson
Bjorn, Thanks - I noticed the typo - but, unfortunately, I don't have permissions to rename a page. Need to figure out how to get more access. :) /sbin/halt shuts down the power, but I'll investigate /sbin/poweroff to see if it's a better solution. An idea to modify this behavior also comes up

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [Kiwi-ltsp-users] Enforcing groups to ldm users

2009-02-02 Thread Shrenik Bhura
Got it. We have a /etc/security/group.conf in openSUSE as well, the same as Ubuntu. Actually it is a part of pam, hence not dist specific. This could be very useful for LTSP users. SB Shrenik Bhura wrote: > Is there anyway that we may enforce the groups that are applicable to a > user (or the gr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HOWTO: Automated thin-client shutdown and installing NTP server for client time sync

2009-02-02 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Friday 23 January 2009 03:43:13 pm Jordan Erickson wrote: > Automated thin-client shutdown via cron (go green!): > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/AutomatedTCShutodwn Hi Jordan, s/Shutodwn/Shutdown/ :-) I notice you use /sbin/halt, not /sbin/poweroff. Any particular reason? Th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Joseph Bishay wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Scott Balneaves > wrote: >> Are all your students in the same primary group? Usually this is what causes >> this. Typically, in modern Linuxes, each user should have their own primary >> group th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Joseph Bishay
Hello, On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Scott Balneaves wrote: > Are all your students in the same primary group? Usually this is what causes > this. Typically, in modern Linuxes, each user should have their own primary > group the same as their userid. > > Scott I was having this problem also

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Steve Cayford
John Hansen wrote: > We recently upgraded to Hardy, and after updating the chroot, USB drives are > mounting successfully. However, now anyone logged onto a thin client can see > other users USB sticks mounted on their desktops. Only the user of that USB > stick can read the device, but it appears

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0600, John Hansen wrote: > We recently upgraded to Hardy, and after updating the chroot, USB drives are > mounting successfully. However, now anyone logged onto a thin client can see > other users USB sticks mounted on their desktops. Only the user of that USB >

[Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread John Hansen
We recently upgraded to Hardy, and after updating the chroot, USB drives are mounting successfully. However, now anyone logged onto a thin client can see other users USB sticks mounted on their desktops. Only the user of that USB stick can read the device, but it appears on everyones desktop that i

[Ltsp-discuss] Enforcing groups to ldm users

2009-02-02 Thread Shrenik Bhura
Is there anyway that we may enforce the groups that are applicable to a user (or the groups that a user is effectively member of) in opensuse? AFAIK, the same can be done via /etc/groups.conf in Ubuntu and may be in Debian too. Is there an equivalent in openSUSE? Any helpful and quick responses s