please help: Logins from thin clients not registering

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:37:43 -0500, Greg Reagle wrote
> Hello.  I administer an Edubuntu lab, and I want to be able to keep
> track of how much time the system is actually being used by students.
> The 'sac' command seems to be appropriate except that it doesn't work in
> Edubuntu with the thin clients.
> 
> I have Edubuntu 6.06.2, fully updated.  There is one Edubuntu server,
> generally not used directly, and several thin clients.
> 
> When someone logs in from the thin clients, (s)he does not show up in
> commands who and last (and sac), but logging in directly to the Edubuntu
> server does register with who and last (and sac).
> 
> Any ideas?  Thank you.

I do not have any ideas on how to make that work.  However, I am wondering if there
could be a script set to run on login and logout that would report to a central
location.  The script could record the action as being either login or logout, the
username, and the date/time.  This central record or file could then be parsed by any
number of applications or scripts to report your information.  I don't exactly know how
to do this, but I would think it to be very trivial for a script junky.

Hope that helps,
Jim

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