Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (16 mails)

[James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 May 2007 07:55, Paco Cruz wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have tried the instructions and it worked like a charm. I have booted
> OpenSUSE 10.2 through PXE, both in a physical system and in a VM using
> the free VMware Server.  This is going to be great for me :-)
>
> I plan to use this in a school to give students accounts in a central
> server.
>
> However, I am now looking for a way to chroot *all* my students so they
> cannot "wander" outside /home (or a specified directory). I have
> "googled"  around and found various papers on chrooting one user, or ftp
> access, etc., but haven't found an easy way to create and administer
> 50-80  users in a chrooted environment.
>
> I plan to couple the chroot environment with  Kiosk profiles to assign
> different capabilities to groups of users.
>
> I'll let you know if everything is going OK :-)
i'm sure that a modified netboot client could be written, but the resources 
are a little thin right now. but I think it's a valuable idea and after we 
finish the ltsp stuff ,  I'll ask that we look at that. then you can take the 
hot seat lol
>
>
> On a related topic. Could it be possible to "strip down" the start up
> system to contain only the necessary files to boot a NX client and
> connect to a NX server? I am playing with the free NX server in OpenSUSE
> and the results in network speed and system responsiveness on various
> linux clients are absolutely  impressive.
>
> ¿Any hint out there?
>
> 2007/5/11, James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Thursday 10 May 2007 20:55, James Tremblay wrote:
> > > I have just completed the first set of installation instructions for
> >
> > LTSP
> >
> > > on Opensuse 10.2
> > > Could I ask that those interested in using this give it a try.
> > > Could I also ask the LTSP devs to give it a try. I know opensuse is
> >
> > foreign
> >
> > > to most of you but your input on what is missing and what can be done
> > > to finish it up would be deeply appreciated.
> > > Cyberorg and I are in the #opensuse-kiwi forum at irc.freenode.net
> > > daily starting around 6:30 am EST and there until somewhere around
> > > noon. schaefi is the core dev for KIWI and he can be left messages in
> > > the
> >
> > forum
> >
> > > pertaining to things that need to be done to the chroot and kiwi in
> > > general. --
> >
> > oops those instructions are at
> > http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP
> > --
> > James Tremblay
> > Director of Technology
> > Newmarket School District
> > Novell CNE 3\4\5
> > CLE \ NCE in training.
> > http://en.opensuse.org/education
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James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Novell CNE 3\4\5
CLE \ NCE in training.
http://en.opensuse.org/education
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