Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-21 Thread Stéphane Graber
On 12-09-21 07:28 PM, James McQuillan wrote: > Scott Balneaves has spent quite a bit of time PAM-ifing the login > manager to facilitate password expiration. it's not ready for production > use yet but he's made some great progress. > > Many of the LTSP developers will be getting together at the d

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-21 Thread James McQuillan
Scott Balneaves has spent quite a bit of time PAM-ifing the login manager to facilitate password expiration. it's not ready for production use yet but he's made some great progress. Many of the LTSP developers will be getting together at the dev conference starting on Oct 4th. I'm sure both passw

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Possible to have separate non-ltsp path to Internet?

2012-09-21 Thread Robert Lefebvre
Hi Dave, Well right now we have two gigabit nic cards on the server, one handles the Internal network while the other goes directly to a static IP. And there is also a 100t onboard nic but that has been deactivated but I would like to make that available to non-ltsp machines since there won't be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-21 Thread Stile
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Vagrant Cascadian > 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 pa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Possible to have separate non-ltsp path to Internet?

2012-09-21 Thread David Burgess
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Robert Lefebvre wrote: > Is it possible to offer a separate Internet connection through the network > that bypasses the Edubuntu DHCP server? Yes, and how you do it depends on your network configuration. I have set up an LTSP network where the LTSP server had only

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-21 Thread Jay Goldberg
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

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
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-stand