Re: [K12OSN] Shutting clients down: was tight vnc connection to ltsp client refused (111 error)

[Angus Carr <acarr saskforestcentre ca>]

Could you not set up a cron job which fires off a local program on the 
terminal?
ssh -l root ${TERMINAL} haltsys

As long as there is appropriate keying, and the keys in use don't have 
passphrases, it should be no problem.

I keep thinking an automated shutdown with our kiosk terminals would be 
great. I keep meaning to set up the automatic turning on features, too, 
but I'm not sure I want to. I'd have to send the wake on lan magic 
packet, but my terminals (Old Dell's) aren't responding. One day, I will 
figure it out, but that day is not today.

Angus Carr.

Peter Hartmann wrote:
> Wow! How I've been pining for that ability.  To have a cron job
> shutting down all terminals at night would be fantastic.  I can't tell
> you how many times I've come in on a Saturday to a 100 degree F
> computer lab!  Ugly waste!!  Would it be possible to remove the
> shutdown function from run_ltspinfod and give it to a seperate command
> with higher permissions?
>
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 5/30/06, Robert Arkiletian <robark gmail com> wrote:
> > On 5/29/06, Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 29 May 2006, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 5/29/06, Dan Visentin <visentind hdsb ca> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>  btw... another great feature to add, if you are so inclined, is 
> > another
> > > >> button to shutdown all the workstations remotely using 
> > /usr/sbin/ltspinfo
> > > >> --host=wsXXX --shutdown (or --reboot).  I'm considering 
> > modifying the
> > > >> sourcecode for fun (I know that's dangerous... but what the heck!).
> > > >>  At any rate, I appreciate your looking into these problems 
> > created by my
> > > >> follies!
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Thank you Dan !!!!!!!!
> > > > I always wanted this feature to be in fl_tt. I had actually asked 
> > this
> > > > question on the list last year Dec 19th. I got no replies and 
> > figured
> > > > it wasn't possible. Rest assured the next version will have this
> > > > feature (now that I know it can be done). No more walking around
> > > > shutting systems off by hand. :)
> > > > Now if only there was a way to boot them remotely. sigh.
> > >
> > > You have to enable an undocumented setting in lts.conf for this to 
> > work
> > > (hint: grep SHUTDOWN /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/*).
> >
> > yes, I know. I already did it.
> >
> > >
> > > The reason this feature is undocumented and disabled by default is 
> > that
> > > there is NO AUTHENTICATION yet. That means your kids can 
> > shutdown/reboot
> > > any terminal they please if they figure this out :-(
> > >
> >
> > What if you change the permission of ltspinfo to 754?