LDM2 update, thoughts about multiple login hosts.

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Scott Balneaves wrote:

> So, over the last couple of days, here's what's working:
> 
> Scripted greeter now working.
> Indication of password failure, and password re-entry now working.
> Password expiry working.
> Autologin working.

Is this autologin to a local account (eg ltsp web kiosks), an ltsp server
or both?  Both would be great.

> Support for LDM_DIRECTX working.
> New rc.d infrastructure working, with the replacement of the
> delayed_mounter with a few-line shell script.

Excellent to hear it's coming on well.

> LDM_SERVER="192.168.0.254 192.168.0.253 192.168.0.252"
> 
> The greeter would present the list as a set of hosts,
> with the default, for lack of a better method, being
> the first one.

Sounds rather like the old "X -indirect" chooser and seems ideal to me.

Gavin