[KLUG Members] Kiosk / Lightweight Workstation Recommendations

[Todd Pillars]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> write to CD-R/USB drive only. 
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> Going to be tough not to have a writable home directory.  Don't make
> your USB device a home directory,  you'll burn up it's write cycles.
Sorry should have been permanent write to storage such as CDR or USB 
drive, because we are blowing home/$user away each time.
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> rm -fR /home/tempuser
> cp -pR /home/skel /home/tempuser
> chown -R tempuser.nobody /home/tempuser
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> You can put it right in the GDM login script so that part runs as root.
Thanks, was thinking along those lines.

>>I have also thought of LTSP/Thin Client but it should/must go through 
>>NoCat (or another auth/accounting scheme) which generally blows up 
>>networking on LTSP right nicely.
>>Ideas? Input? Thanks in advance!
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> What do you want to control/account for?
We need to show number of times used, duration, intended/actual usage, 
etc, so that we can justify their existence.

Todd