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

THANKS so much for pointing to that! I've been googling so hard for other
examples of 'clean state' logins, but didn't find this. Will report back if
I get any joy with it. Much appreciated.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 15:53, Dashamir Hoxha <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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