Re: guest logins created with script

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:36 AM Mark Pengelly <markshop-q9sPVrG2Mx0k+I/[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've used the script referred to on Dashamir's ltsp scenarios website as I
> create a public/guest lab; I assume the latest version of that is here:
>
> https://gitlab.com/Virtual-LTSP/VirtualBox/blob/bionic/scripts/create-guest-accounts.sh
> The script appeared to run fine (xubuntu 18.04 server).
>
> Sorry to be dim but some little questions follow:
> What/where are the passwords for the (template) 'guest' account and the
> 255 other client accounts?
>

The paswords for the 255 guest accounts are the same as the username (for
examle username=ltsp125, password=ltsp125)
Since these are guest accounts I thint that this does not matter. Also at
the end of the script there is a configuration like this:
`@guest        hard    maxlogins       1`
which I believe prevents somebody to login at the same account that a guest
user is currently logged in.

The password for the 'guest' template account is here:
https://gitlab.com/Virtual-LTSP/VirtualBox/blob/bionic/scripts/create-guest-accounts.sh#L5
It can be passed to the script as an argument and it has a default value of
'pass'.
For example this is how it is called from some other script:
https://gitlab.com/Virtual-LTSP/VirtualBox/blob/bionic/ltsp-server/install.sh#L186

I admit that it is not so obvious that a password should be passed as a
parameter to the script. Maybe I should fix it so that the script complains
if it does not get some arguments.


>
> I think I expected the guest user accounts to be named 'guestXX' but they
> are named 'ltspXX'. Is that as expected?
>

'ltsp' is the defult value for the basename:
https://gitlab.com/Virtual-LTSP/VirtualBox/blob/bionic/scripts/create-guest-accounts.sh#L6
So, it is configurable on the script. But I think that the basename should
match the directive HOSTNAME_BASE on `ltsp.conf` (whose default value is
'ltsp'), other it may not work.

I beleive there is also a recently added directive on `ltsp.conf` about
making a mapping from HOSTNAME_BASE to the guest username, but when I
tested it, it didn't work. Maybe I did not test it properly, I am not sure.

Dashamir


>
> Perhaps there were some variables in the script I should have amended?
>
> Thanks for any pointers, Mark
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