Re: Very slow guest login

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 1:27 PM Giacomo Trovato <giacomo-o6+VoJyZ4uJWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> on my school laboratory with LTSP-MATE (server on ESXI) I've 21 fat
> clients that login as guest.
>
> I've the reset guest account script.
>
> The login is very slow when all the students login at the same time (also
> more than 5 minutes).
>
> I assume that's because the script copies at the same time all the home
> folders from the template.
>
> Is there any way to speedup the process?
>
> Perhaps executing the script at logout or with a chron job at night?
>
In my opinion, resetting on logout is not safe, because a client may shut
down abruptly,
without making a logout (for example if the power goes off). A nightly
reset with a cron job
is also not very safe, since there may be multiple login/logout during the
day.
It is up to you to decide whether these risks are acceptable for your case,
depending on your situation.

Having said that, you may speed up a bit the process if you use `rsync` for
resetting, instead of `rm` and `cp`.

Regards,
Dashamir

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