Re: [opensuse-edu] ltsp on openSUSE

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 :

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On Thursday 10 May 2007 20:55, James Tremblay wrote:

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I have just completed the first set of installation instructions for

LTSP

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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

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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

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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org

-- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Novell CNE 3\4\5 CLE \ NCE in training. http://en.opensuse.org/education -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org