Hi folks, A couple of us in the Devon & Cornwall LUG are looking to setting up some mobile internet kiosks (well, old laptops with a server running Edubuntu) for a couple of local events that are coming up.
The idea is that the time a user can use one of the laptops for is limited to say an hour. I've managed to write a script that will log the current user off after an hour (but give a 5 minute and 1 minute warning before forcing the log off). We'd also like a script to run at logoff to reset the users password (so they can't just log back on for another hour without asking first). For this I was thinking of a script to reset the password using passwd. The thing is, I wasn't sure what the best way of running the login scripts was. I see in /etc/gdm there are two directories call PostLogin and PostSession, has anyone actually used these? According to the contents of /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample, it runs as root after login, so I wonder if I could run my autologoff script from there and at the end of the autologoff script have a line that resets the password? (I presume any scripts executed from the Default script will run as root too?) If anyone can advise me on this it would be really handy. Ta, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
