Gutsy thin client autologin

[Graham Newland]

Hi,

Yes, I can login with this username/password manually when the LDM_* lines
are commented out. I built the image with the ltsp-build-client command.
Apart from changing the IP address and adding users, it's a standard
Edubuntu 7.10 installation.

I'm assuming I don't need to do rebuild the image each time I make a change
to lts.conf in the tftproot?

At the moment, the user only exists in /etc/passwd, not
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/passwd. Do I need to make sure the user exists in both
files? If so, is there a correct way to do this? (Sorry if these are basic
questions, I've only recently started playing around with ltsp!)

Thanks
Graham.

-----Original Message-----
From: edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Manu
Sent: 15 November 2007 21:39
To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Gutsy thin client autologin


Hi,

On Nov 14, 2007 2:01 PM, graham newland <graham.newland at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any tips for getting autologin working with Gutsy
> thin clients?
>
> I recently set up a thin client environment for testing purposes. When
> I'm not using autologin, everything works as expected. The client
> boots up and provides a login screen, and the user is able to login
> manually.
>
> When I try using autologin by adding the LDM_USERNAME and LDM_PASSWORD
> variables to lts.conf, the client boots up normally but where I'd
> expect it to login with the credentials supplied in lts.conf, it just
> sits there with a black screen and an 'X' cursor and goes no further.
> Nothing appears in auth.log on the server.
>
> My lts.conf (I'm using the one in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/) is simply:
>
> [default]
>    LTSP_VERSION=5.0.39
>    SERVER=192.168.5.100
>
> [00:01:02:03:04:05]
>    LDM_USERNAME=user
>    LDM_PASSWORD=mypassword

Can you login manually with this account  (user/mypassword) ?

>
> where 00:01:02:03:04:05 is the MAC address of the client. If I comment
> out the two LDM_* lines and reboot the client, everything works as
> expected and I can login manually.
>
> I've had a quick search, but can't see what I'm doing wrong (although
> I don't have a great deal of Linux experience, so may have overlooked
> something obvious!)
>
> Any suggestions?

Have you build special ltsp environnement (ex: kiosk ) ? or update image ?


Manu


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