How to setup classroom lab with auto login and mandatory profiles

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:52:07AM -0500, Scott Ledyard wrote:

:Secondly, we'd like the desktop to be standard and any changes that might
:have been made by the previous user would NOT have been saved. In windows
:this would be referred to as a mandatory profile.

There's probably a better way, but for a kiosk system I setup a script
that ran on login (or possibly logout) the removed the users home
directory and unpacked the tar'ed up master copy.  This is ugly but
does effecdtively insure that state is not preserved between logins.

it was something along the lines of

rm -rf /home/kiosk
tar xzf /usr/local/src/home-kiosk.tgz


-Jon