I too work at a University and have been playing with a great script (you may already be aware of) called meta-kiosk. You can find it at:
http://blogs.sun.com/danielc/entry/meta_kiosk_how_to_run I am preparing for next semester. All of my work is outside of VDI. (I nreally need to demo that thing! :0) ) Using the meta-kiosk script, I have written a script that works from smart cards assigned to students (not favorable to you) that, once the card is inserted, queries a Sun LDAP instance and presents a text menu that students can pick a class from. It is still very "young". Currently it can start an XP session, open ssh terminals to a server or open a terminal locally all based on data pulled from LDAP. I am working on having it be able to bring up a Linux or Solaris GUI login, etc. I currently use xVM and Solaris zones on OpenSolaris to provide VMs for the various classes. (with the occasional XP instance in the mix) I also use VirtualBox to provide various OSes on students laptops and I am going to experiment with using VirtualBox to create XP VMs accessible by RDP. /paul -----Original Message----- >From: Kevin Farrell <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 11, 2009 2:25 PM >To: SunRay-Users mailing list <[email protected]> >Subject: [SunRay-Users] Kiosk Mode AD Authentication > >I work for a University and am trying to pitch the whole xVM/VDI SunRay >concept. I have an evaluation setup of VDI 3.0 up and running, but I'm >not sure that the functionality exists for what I want to do. > >Here's what I am trying to accomplish: > >Whenever a user sits down at a SunRay, they are prompted for their >username/password, which will then be authenticated through our AD and >if they have no previous configuration or desktop/pool assignments, they >will receive a Windows desktop from a dynamic pool. >Otherwise, if they have multiple desktops assigned, they will be given a >list to choose from. > >The VDA kiosk app almost accomplishes this, but the authentication is >not done on the front end. It simply asks for the username/password, >but really only uses the username to discover the assignments. Thus it >would be possible to steal other users sessions. > >We could accomplish this with SmartCards, but we have far too many users >and it would be a nightmare to try and issue a card to every user and >manage all of that information. > >Has anybody done something similar or have any ideas on where I can >start looking? If I need to develop my own Kiosk apps for this, does >anybody have a template I could start from? > >My servers are all running Solaris 10u6, by the way. > >Thanks for any help! > >-- >-Kevin Farrell > >_______________________________________________ >SunRay-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
