Ok...I'm back...Autologin and shutting down/rebooting thin-clients remotely

[David Groos]

Hi David,

Welcome back!

For the end-of-class reboot, that would be simple with Epoptes ("overseer"
in Greek) -- a new replacement for iTALC being mainly used and developed in
Greece by alkisg and team mates.  It's quite a bit quicker (and seems more
stable) than italc. Also it is just entering the international arena and is
perhaps at a more malleable stage of development if you have some good
ideas.  It would be a simple matter of selecting the icons representing the
different clients in class and then pressing the reboot button; all would
reboot right then and there.

Also, couldn't you just define the kindergarten clients via MAC addresses
in the lts.conf and tell those clients to autologin -- but I don't know how
to tell them to do it just within a certain time range like you need it.

Anyway, more info on epoptes at http://epoptes.org and to get more
interactive help on it try #ltsp, esp. when it's creators are present.

David G

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:06 AM, David Trask <dtrask at vcsvikings.org> wrote:

> ** **
> It's been a while.  I've been out of the edubuntu loop (I was one of the
> original users) for a while as I've been using something else, but
> necessity and desire have brought me back.  It's good to be back too.  I've
> set up a test server and clients for 11.10 and have been playing around.
>  iTalc does most of what I need.  BUT...
>
> Here's what I need to do.  For our youngest kids (kindergarten), I need to
> set the thin-clients to login automatically in the computer lab.  Having
> them try to log in is simply too time consuming at that age.  What I do now
> is set my lab to "auto-login" for the first period and then at the end of
> the period, I set it back to "normal login".  I can figure out how to do it
> sorta' manually by having two copies of lts.conf and switching between
> them...one with autologin set up with ldm and one without.  (I cannot just
> do the default autologin=true as the server is for the whole building and
> I'm simply trying to control one computer lab).  Now...if there is a more
> elegant solution, I'm happy to try it.  My issue is....
>
> In order for my idea to work, I need to be able to physically reboot the
> thin-clients or they don't pick up the change in lts.conf.  Is there a way
> to reboot and/or shut-down  thin-clients?  I would imagine if one can ssh
> into the thin-clients, then they can be rebooted...correct?  Then perhaps I
> could script it?  Any ideas and how-to's are welcome.  (I could even use
> some tips on how to ssh into the clients)  Thanks!
>
> David Trask
> Technology Director/Teacher
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> (207) 923-4305
>
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