Urgent help request! was Re: how do you get something to run when a user logs on?

[Vu Nguyen]

Thank you for the info, John.
It is very helpful for a newbie. It is good when I am not alone with my
idea.
Thanks and I'll get back with the results.
Vu Nguyen
Powerthink Mebourne


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:59 AM, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Vu,
>
> We use win2k3 for authentication as well via winbind. We used to host
> student files on a windows server and I believe we used the pam_mount
> module to mount the shares on a per user basis
>  http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/
>
> Last year we moved the student files over to Linux and we are happy
> with the results. Since we're in a mixed environment we can share
> files with WindowsXP users via samba, with our LTSP clients via NFS
> and even allow remote access via sftp.
>
> I DO wish that /etc/profile would still work as it used to. I am sure
> there are good reasons for moving to an image based approach (if
> that's the right way to describe it) but I don't like the fact that it
> breaks the way *nix has worked for 20 years or so.
>
> John
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Vu Nguyen <linuxnuke at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi John and everyone,
> > Thanks for this post, I am also looking for the solution too.
> > I am deploying a lab with Edubuntu LTSP in a school, we have W2K3 domain
> > setup already, I have tried likewise on normal ubuntu, it joins the
> domain
> > and everything is ok, but it seems that I don't have luck with Edubuntu
> > LTSP, I am working on this and next step will be "how to map their home
> > drive when they log on to the lab?".
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Ta.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:21 AM, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am two days away from the start of school and the problem I
> >> described before still applies to me. If I can't figure this out I'll
> >> have to put off my upgrade to 8.04 (or 8.10 perhaps) until December.
> >> I'd really appreciate any help.
> >>
> >> This issue is I want to run some scripts that up until now have been
> >> called by /etc/profile. This has worked for me up through Edubuntu
> >> 7.04 The scripts use the system variables $HOME and $USER to map NFS
> >> shares to users desktops. I understand from oli and others that the
> >> image generated by 8.04 doesn't reference /etc/profile when users log
> >> in.
> >>
> >> When I tried calling these scripts from
> >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d per Ollies suggestion the scripts didn't seem to
> >> run, and in fact after accepting my credentials X just sent me back to
> >> the login screen,  perhaps my syntax was incorrect. But I couldn't
> >> find any debug information in the logs to trouble shoot the issue.
> >> Where do I find more debug info?
> >>
> >> francois suggestion about putting the lines in
> >> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/profile and then updating the image didn't work
> >> either.
> >>
> >> Below is the what I placed in my file called
> >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/85-SetupHome:
> >>
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> #
> >> # SetupHome.sh
> >> #       Clean up from previous session
> >> #
> >> # Sweep all files from $HOME and $HOME/Desktop to $HOME/Desktop/ZDrive
> >> #  (ignores directories).
> >> # Makes Desktop and ZDrive dir entries if needed.
> >> #
> >>
> >> # Name of desktop itself
> >> dt=$HOME/Desktop
> >> if [ ! -e $dt ]
> >> then
> >>    mkdir $dt
> >> fi
> >>
> >> # Name of ZDrive on Desktop
> >> zd=$dt/ZDrive
> >>
> >> # Storage server, and pre-built index of students on the server
> >> server=/mnt/ALLSTUDENTS
> >> index=$server/index.students
> >>
> >> # Make sure username is all lower case
> >> user=`echo $USER | tr A-Z a-z`
> >>
> >> # Zdrive does not exist, go figure it out
> >> if [ ! -e $zd ]
> >> then
> >>
> >>    # Search file server for this user's directory
> >>    if grep "/$user"'$' $index > /tmp/us$$
> >>    then
> >>        store=$server/`cat /tmp/us$$`
> >>    else
> >>        # N.B., must fix for y3k compatibility
> >>        store=$server/2*/$user
> >>    fi
> >>    rm -f /tmp/us$$
> >>
> >>    # Teachers, for instance, won't have storage on student fileserver
> >>    if [ -e $store ]
> >>    then
> >>        ln -s $store $zd
> >>    else
> >>        # No ZDrive available for this user, just quietly leave
> >>        exit 0
> >>    fi
> >> fi
> >>
> >> # If the user created files in the home directory, move them down
> >> # to the Desktop
> >> for src in "$HOME" "$dt"
> >> do
> >>    # Walk entries in this dir
> >>    cd $src
> >>    for x in *
> >>    do
> >>        # Only process *files* in this dir
> >>        if [ -f "$x" ]
> >>        then
> >>            # Calculate default destination
> >>            dest="$zd/$x"
> >>
> >>            # Oops, already there, concatenate an index number
> >>            if [ -e "$dest" ]
> >>            then
> >>                # Start with <foo>_0, and count up until an opening is
> >> found
> >>                count=0
> >>                dest2="$zd/$count""_$x"
> >>                while [ -e "$dest2" ]
> >>                do
> >>                    count=`expr $count + 1`
> >>                    dest2="$zd/$count""_$x"
> >>                done
> >>                cp "$x" "$dest2" && rm -f "$x"
> >>            else
> >>                cp "$x" "$dest" && rm -f "$x"
> >>            fi
> >>        fi
> >>    done
> >> done
> >>
> >>
> >> exit 0
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> >> > hi,
> >> > On Do, 2008-08-28 at 08:03 -0700, john wrote:
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> I was wondering where I can put scripts that I want to run when a
> user
> >> >> logs on to a thin client. I used to put them in /etc/profile but that
> >> >> doesn't seem to work under Hardy. It seems like LDM is somehow
> >> >> by-passing the stuff I put there. Can someone help me out?
> >> > ldm is executing /etc/X11/Xsession by default ... (like gdm or kdm do)
> >> > one option would be to put stuff into /etc/X11/Xsession.d, another is
> to
> >> > use the xdg autostart mechanism in /etc/xdg/autostart
> >> >
> >> > ciao
> >> >        oli
> >> >
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