Re: guest logins created with script

Thanks both for the very prompt and helpful replies.

Now (nearly) all working as expected - good work!

Giacomo thanks for your comments re: resetting the guest password
Dashamar your explanations re: the passwords; helpful. I'm a bit new to
scripting so it might be just me.

Issues:
First time I login using the guest button all fine. Then I amend the
'guest' desktop on the server (eg wallpaper). (Do an image rebuild).
Changes DO update the guest account on a client (yay!) However I've had
this message this time (which I didn't get when I first logged in, before I
made any changes to guest desktop):
"Configured directory for incoming files does not exist
Please make sure that directory "/home/guest/Downloads" exists or configure
it with blueman-services"

Feels like a permissions issue(?). I did change the guest account password
to one of my own, has that messed things up maybe?








On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 11:05, Dashamir Hoxha <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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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