[K12OSN] Text-only sessions in K12

[David Fourie (TSC)]

I tried that - I set SCREEN_01 = shell in lts.conf for that particular
workstation, but it only opened and shell with no login, and therefore no
access to file server or /home directories etc.

How do you set a user session to open a terminal text-only session ?

Regds
DF

> If you set the option in lts.conf, you can have a local shell on the
> client.
>
> You can also set the user session to open a full-screen terminal and log
> out if it exits.
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 08:08 +0200, David Fourie (TSC) wrote:
>> Hi there
>> I will definitely try this option of using a 'simple' window manager -
>> about to download ratpoison right now!
>>
>> It also occurred to me yesterday while deliberating on this issue that
>> an
>> X session is at runlevel 5 while and terminal shells are at runlevel 3.
>> Is it not possible to set a user's session to only startup in runlevel
>> 3??
>>
>> thanks for the post.
>>
>> regds
>> DF
>> Solution Centre, SA
>> >
>> >
>> > I know this in not exactly what you are asking, but I was thinking
>> maybe
>> > just give them a VERY BASIC window manager.  the window manager
>> ratpoison
>> > (http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/) comes to mind.  This has the added
>> > benefit of not locking the user(s) into a specific terminal.
>> >
>> >
>> > Just adjust their $HOME/.xsession file to look something like:
>> >
>> >    # $HOME/.xsession startup script
>> >    xterm &
>> >    exec ratpoison
>> >
>> >
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>> > On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:33:34 +0200 (SAST)
>> > "David Fourie (TSC)" <k12 at bizmail.co.za> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all
>> >> Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but I have been unable
>> to
>> >> find anything in the lists or howtos...
>> >>
>> >> I am trying to get a K12 ver 6 environment to provide a text-only
>> >> session
>> >> for selected users - these users do not require any of the
>> >> X-applications
>> >> and would prefer to boot/login directly to a text session or the text
>> >> application that we have provided for them.
>> >>
>> >> I tried (unsuccessfuly) to make custom changes for the specific MAC
>> >> address in lts.conf using a line "SCREEN_01 = shell" - this booted
>> into
>> >> a
>> >> shell, but no connection to any of the filesystems, so it was not
>> >> useful.
>> >>
>>
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