Customizing Edubuntu's LTSP client to start another session

[S. J. van Harmelen]

Will have a look at it and send a patch if nessesairy. My system now
boots (with the -u option without a username), so I can go and see how
far I come with all the options I need/want to test.

Thanks and I'm sure I'll get back here quite soon :)


On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 15:35 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, S. J. van Harmelen wrote:
> 
> >  3436 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/rdesktop
> >  3799 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/rdesktop -u  -a 15 -f 212.45.52.101 -- :6.0 tty7
> >  3800 tty2     S<s+   0:00      \_ X :6.0 tty7
> 
> > Anything odd about this process list? Does process  3799 look okay? As
> > this is the one that sould start rdesktop.
> 
> Looks like you haven't supplied a username or have left it empty but it's
> still passing up the -u switch which should be followed by the username.
> I'd say that's a bug, though I don't have a gutsy system to hand to look
> at.
> 
> If I run:
> 	rdesktop -u  -a 15 -f <hostname>
> the connection fails.
> 
> Suggestions:
> 
> 1. If you have a username you can pass, do.
> 
> 2. If you don't want to pass a username, modify
>    /opt/ltsp/i386//usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/rdesktop and remove the 
>    "-u $USERNAME" (or whatever it says), rebuild the image and reboot the
>    thin client.
> 
> Better still, submit a patch to do something like
> 
> 	USERSTRING=""
> 	if [ ! -z $USERNAME ] 
> 	then
> 		USERSTRING="-u $USERNAME"
> 	fi
> 
> 	/usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/rdesktop $USERSTRING  -a 15 -f 212.45.52.101 -- :6.0 tty7
> 
> Gavin
> 
>