[Ltsp-discuss] LDM2 update, thoughts about multiple login hosts.

[Jim McQuillan]

Scott Balneaves wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:15:27PM -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> 
>> I would really like to see LDM_SERVER be able to accept fully qualified dns names.  Then
>> I could simply point LDM_SERVER=ltsp.mydomain.com and set up a round robin A record in
>> DNS where ltsp.mydomain.com resolves to either a single IP or a group of IP's.  Then DNS
>> would actually be able to handle the load balancing without any need for configuration
>> changes on the server if a LTSP server is added or removed from the pool.
> 
> So long as you set up the resolv.conf within the chroot, that should work as
> expected.
> 
>> Any updates on the status of local application support in LDM2, or isn't that related to
>> LDM?
> 
> We're still needing a good method for getting network auth going.  I don't
> want to say too much, but Matt Oquist and I banged around a couple of
> ideas in #edubuntu a few days ago, and he's begun work on pam/nss module
> that will do what we want without the need for pushing ldap down to the
> client by, amazingly, doing the pam and nss stuff over the ssh link.

Network auth is NOTHING compared to the issue of mounting home 
directories over the net.  That's where the challenges are going to come.

I'm thinking some more fuse/ltspfs type magic will be required here.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org