Re: [K12OSN] K12LTSP user in kiosk mode

["Christopher K. Johnson" <ckjohnson gwi net>]

David Trask wrote:

> Ok,
>
> Here's what I have and what I wanna do.  I have a K12LTSP server that
> serves my school....it's a beast.  It authenticates via Samba/LDAP to
> another box that houses the home dirs and so forth...exported via
> NFS....works great.  My school librarian would like a couple of terminals
> to act as kiosks in the library.  We want them to log in automatically (as
> a generic user...say....library1 and library2) and do nothing except
> basically serve the web and maybe an app or two...with no capability to
> save to /home.  Our card catalog is web based....so really we're just
> looking for electronic card catalogs....I'd like to be able to do it with
> my existing set up.....any ideas?
>  
If you are running gdm (gnome) then you can rename 
/etc/X11/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample to /etc/X11/gdm/PostLogin/Default 
and edit it to check if $LOGIN is library1 or library2 and restore the 
$HOME from a tar or cpio archive you make of the pristine home dir.

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