Edubuntu Bug Day

[john]

> And think about which bugs they'd like to see fixed for Lucid, that'd be great.
> I'll coordinate in irc in #edubuntu on the day of, and if anyone feels they'd
> like to email me the bugs, just respond to this thread.
>
> Looking forward to giving you all a hand.
>
> Cheers,
> Scott

Scott et. al,

For my part, I'd love to see LDM not have to restart when a user
"fat-fingers" their password. At the very least I'd like to see them
get another chance before LDM restarts.

Listed as bug# 412197

Ok, with the understanding you didn't ask for the next two (since they
aren't in the bug list):

One that isn't listed there that I would like to see fixed is getting
removable drives (e.g. thumb drives and floppies mostly) on thin
clients to be able to mount 700
by default. Our users autheticate via AD so they all share the same
user group. Consequently floppy drives and thumb drives show up on
everyones desktop unless I apply the perl script fix
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LocaldevCommonGroupWorkaround
The approach taken via the perl script is to used setuid to chown the
mount to user:root, without really understanding the deep magic
involved here, I'd merely suggest a permission change rather than an
ownership change, and perhaps there's a way to not have to invoke
suid?

Since I am blathering, how about integrating Gnome-Watchdog into
edubuntu and adding a switch that would simply log off users from
stale sessions if they logged in at a different TC? Right now
Gnome-Watchdog, has an option that creates and interactive dialog to
the effect "Are you really sure you want to log off your session
somewhere else" in our case, at least, the answer is always "yes."


Yours in blissful ignorance!

John