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

David Groos djgroos at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 15:40:10 UTC 2011


OK alkisg beat me to the reply!

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:38 AM, David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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