Re: Public lab with fresh desktop on each boot/login

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, 10:19 Mark Pengelly <markshop-q9sPVrG2Mx0k+I/[email protected] wrote:

> I wonder if anyone could kindly help me with my LTSP public lab. It's all
> running fine, but I'd really like to implement the approach taken in this
> post:
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2177959
> Whereby whenever anyone logs in they get a fresh clean version of the
> desktop taken from a template.
>
> It's all working to the extent that my 12 (fat-client) PCs now autologin,
> per mac address, each to their own account. However I can't get the
> /opt/ltsp/ltsp-session.sh script for overwriting the individual users
> desktop, from the template one upon each boot, to work:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> if groups | grep &>/dev/null '\blab\b'; then
> # For users in the 'lab' group, copy from 'template' user
> shopt -s dotglob
> find /home/$USER/* ! -path /home/$USER/.Xauthority -exec rm -rf {} \;
> rsync --archive --exclude .Xauthority /home/template/* /home/$USER/
> shopt -u dotglob
> chmod -R go-wrx /home/$USER
> fi
>
> /usr/bin/xfce4-session
>
> if [ $USER == template ]; then
> # Make 'template' user copyable
> shopt -s dotglob
> chmod -R a+r /home/template/*
> find /home/template/* -type d -exec chmod a+x {} \;
> shopt -u dotglob
> fi
>
>
> The script is implemented by
>
> [Default]
> LDM_XSESSION = /opt/ltsp/ltsp-session.sh
>
> in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/fat_amd64/lts.conf
>
> When I turn that option on the boot of the client gets so far then hangs.
>
> I'm using ubuntu server 16.04 and have created a fat amd64 client image.
> All the basics work fine.
>
> Anyone else got an LTSP setup working with a clean/refreshed desktop upon
> boot (copied from a template?) working?
>

I got it working with the solution described here:
http://dashohoxha.fs.al/ltsp-scenarios/#sec-4
But I have not tried it with Ubuntu-16.04


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