Gutsy thin client autologin

[Manu]

Hi,

On Nov 14, 2007 2:01 PM, graham newland <graham.newland at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any tips for getting autologin working with Gutsy
> thin clients?
>
> I recently set up a thin client environment for testing purposes. When
> I'm not using autologin, everything works as expected. The client
> boots up and provides a login screen, and the user is able to login
> manually.
>
> When I try using autologin by adding the LDM_USERNAME and LDM_PASSWORD
> variables to lts.conf, the client boots up normally but where I'd
> expect it to login with the credentials supplied in lts.conf, it just
> sits there with a black screen and an 'X' cursor and goes no further.
> Nothing appears in auth.log on the server.
>
> My lts.conf (I'm using the one in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/) is simply:
>
> [default]
>    LTSP_VERSION=5.0.39
>    SERVER=192.168.5.100
>
> [00:01:02:03:04:05]
>    LDM_USERNAME=user
>    LDM_PASSWORD=mypassword

Can you login manually with this account  (user/mypassword) ?

>
> where 00:01:02:03:04:05 is the MAC address of the client. If I comment
> out the two LDM_* lines and reboot the client, everything works as
> expected and I can login manually.
>
> I've had a quick search, but can't see what I'm doing wrong (although
> I don't have a great deal of Linux experience, so may have overlooked
> something obvious!)
>
> Any suggestions?

Have you build special ltsp environnement (ex: kiosk ) ? or update image ?


Manu


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