Customizing Edubuntu's LTSP client to start another session

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, S. J. van Harmelen wrote:

>  3436 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/rdesktop
>  3799 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/rdesktop -u  -a 15 -f 212.45.52.101 -- :6.0 tty7
>  3800 tty2     S<s+   0:00      \_ X :6.0 tty7

> Anything odd about this process list? Does process  3799 look okay? As
> this is the one that sould start rdesktop.

Looks like you haven't supplied a username or have left it empty but it's
still passing up the -u switch which should be followed by the username.
I'd say that's a bug, though I don't have a gutsy system to hand to look
at.

If I run:
	rdesktop -u  -a 15 -f <hostname>
the connection fails.

Suggestions:

1. If you have a username you can pass, do.

2. If you don't want to pass a username, modify
   /opt/ltsp/i386//usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/rdesktop and remove the 
   "-u $USERNAME" (or whatever it says), rebuild the image and reboot the
   thin client.

Better still, submit a patch to do something like

	USERSTRING=""
	if [ ! -z $USERNAME ] 
	then
		USERSTRING="-u $USERNAME"
	fi

	/usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/rdesktop $USERSTRING  -a 15 -f 212.45.52.101 -- :6.0 tty7

Gavin