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

2009-02-03 Thread Jordan Erickson
ACLs are really pretty darn simple once you understand the syntax of 'getfacl' and 'setfacl'. Even Nautilus has integration of ACL administration through Eiciel, so those who are "shell shocked" don't have to fire one up. IMHO there's no reason to set up some elaborate filesharing mechanism li

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

2009-02-03 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le lundi 02 février 2009 21:10:02 Scott Balneaves, vous avez écrit : > 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 f

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] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread John Hansen
- Original Message --- From: Steve Cayford To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:56:28 -0600 Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone > John Hansen wrote: > > We recently upgraded to Hardy, and after updating the chr

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] 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] USB flash drives not mounting after upgrade to Hardy-2

2009-01-07 Thread John Hansen
I recently upgraded to Hardy from Feisty and Gutsy. Now USB flash drives will not mount on the thin clients as they did before. u...@ltsp:~$ dpkg -l ltspfs|grep ^ii ii ltspfs 0.5.0~bzr20080109-3ubuntu3 Fuse based remote filesystem for LTSP thi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB Flash Drives and LDA

2005-12-08 Thread Jim McQuillan
-Original Message- From: Jim McQuillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:45 PM To: Chris Northstrum Cc: 'ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB Flash Drives and LDA Chris, What distro are you running? Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] USB Flash Drives and LDA

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Northstrum
ubject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB Flash Drives and LDA Chris, What distro are you running? Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Northstrum wrote: > Forgive me if this has already been addressed in the Archives. > > I am currently attempting to enable Local Device Access in a LTSP 4.1.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB Flash Drives and LDA

2005-12-08 Thread Jim McQuillan
Chris, What distro are you running? Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Northstrum wrote: Forgive me if this has already been addressed in the Archives. I am currently attempting to enable Local Device Access in a LTSP 4.1.1 setup. I am running RHEL3 with ltsp 4.1.1 and have LTSP Term 15

[Ltsp-discuss] USB Flash Drives and LDA

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Northstrum
Forgive me if this has already been addressed in the Archives. I am currently attempting to enable Local Device Access in a LTSP 4.1.1 setup. I am running RHEL3 with ltsp 4.1.1 and have LTSP Term 150e thin clients. I have read and followed the Wiki, all parts that pertain to gdm/nautalis, down

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives

2002-11-13 Thread offray . luna
Hi Jeff El lun, 11-11-2002 a las 00:45, Jeff Nelson escribió: > I'm going to be installing a LTSP computer lab in Colombia in January, and > want to get them using those little "thumb" drives that work in the USB port > for users' standard removable storage. Do you mean Colombia Suramérica? (

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff Nelson
Interesting, but that's a different animal... what I want is removable storage for users to take with them from one terminal to another, and to their homes. Here are some examples: http://www.thumbdrive.com/ http://www.18004memory.com/category.asp?catid=10&subcatid=1008 I've read that they work

[Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives

2002-11-10 Thread Jeff Nelson
I'm going to be installing a LTSP computer lab in Colombia in January, and want to get them using those little "thumb" drives that work in the USB port for users' standard removable storage. Does anyone know if they will work inserted into the terminal's usb port? Has anyone worked up a scri