Ubuntu Kiosk?

[Al Gordon]

On 5/10/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A local school is interested in trying out Linux. I will setup a room
> with thin clients running from an Edubuntu server. I just have one
> concern: Last year I did this with another school. I setup a single user
> account which all the students shared. This worked alright except for
> OpenOffice. If two students started OpenOffice the second one would see
> an error saying that OOo was running. I never found a solution for this.
>
> I'd like to setup something Kiosk-style. I don't want to hand out 600
> user names and passwords. I have no idea how to setup a thin client
> Kiosk. Any suggestions? Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I run a small training room (12 workstations plus instructor PC) in
LTSP mode with Ubuntu 5.10.  What we do is assign 1 user account per
PC (student1 through student12) with the same password, then use a
labeler to mark each PC with the login credentials.  It seems to work
fairly well for us, but we only have 12-13 stations to contend with.
Are you going to have ~600+ workstations, or just ~600+ users?  If the
number of workstations is low, I'd consider an account per workstation
kind of solution.

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