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

[David Trask]

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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