[K12OSN] Creating a repository in a K12LTSP server

[Petre Scheie]

You might have a look at Apache's UserDir option, and set that up.  Then each user has 
to put their files in ~/public_html (or whatever subdirectory you designate).  Then the 
user just points FF at http://server:userid/public_html to see the files.  By default, 
this means everyone's files are available to everyone, but read only.  If that's not 
acceptable, you could look at putting a .htaccess file in ~/public_html which would 
trigger a prompt for an ID & PW to gain access.  And of course, you have to setup Apache 
to work with the .htaccess files including creating a file that has all the IDs & PWs, 
but it's not very hard.

Petre

ahodson at elp.rr.com wrote:
> The problem is that the laptops that eventually will connect are PCs
> (XP) and Macs, not linux machines... I am hoping for some help with the
> permissions issue and/or protocol like samba...
> cheers
> alan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Oliveri <moliveri at rb60.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:58 am
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Creating a repository in a K12LTSP server
> To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
> 
>> Agreed. I would also add you can use Konqueror and the fish protocol:
>>
>> fish://ipaddress 
>>
>> Think of it as a front end for scp/sftp. This way they can open a
>> browser and be in a familiar interface, and it will prompt them for
>> their user name and password. Again, all you need on the server is for
>> SSH to be running. You can use a split view in the window to get a
>> two-pane view similar to a typical FTP/SCP GUI.
>>
>> Of course, this assumes you've got KDE. I've not had enough hands-on
>> with K12LTSP (yet) to know for a fact if this will work.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
>> Behalf Of Petre Scheie
>> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:25 AM
>> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Creating a repository in a K12LTSP server
>>
>> Alan-
>> Check out sshfs.  Basically, it allows one to mount a remote file 
>> systemover ssh.  It runs in user space so regular, non-root users 
>> can use it.
>> It uses fuse which is the mechanism used in LTSP 4.2 to provide Local
>> Device Access to USB sticks on the dekstop, etc.  You don't need
>> anything on the remote server other than ssh which you said you've
>> already got.  If the name of the remote directory is the same as the
>> user's ID on the local machine, you could easily create a script or a
>> launcher that sets it up, passing the user ID as a parameter, and then
>> the user can just click on an icon to access the files.
>>
>> Petre
>>
>> Alan Hodson wrote:
>>> Hi colleagues
>>>
>>> For the district's Science Fair I was asked to help create a
>> repository
>>> account where students from each school could login into a
>> pre-assigned
>>> folder using given accounts/pwds, and upload their digital
>>> presentations. The idea is to provide each student with an area 
>> where> they can keep their presentations, and on the day of the 
>> event (held
>> at
>>> a local university) we take the server, set up 20-30 laptops 
>> connected> via a couple of switches, and have the students download 
>> their> presentations when the judges call their name.
>>> So far I've created the names of the schools in the home directory
>>> (home/schoolA, schoolB, etc) and using webmin and an algorithm 
>> for six
>>> character unique passwords, I've batched-created S(chool)Amascot1,
>>> SAmascot2, SAmascot3 (see http://links.episd.org/users2.txt for a
>>> working Webmin batch file example) and they reside
>>> in /home/schoolA/SAmascot1, /home/SchoolA/SAmascot2... The end 
>> resultis
>>> that each participating student has an area in her/his school's
>> folder,
>>> and access it with a unique login and a unique password. 
>>>
>>> What I am having a hard time doing is making these files be 
>> accessible> via a firefox ftp call: 
>> ftp://SAmascot1:A1B2C3@I.P.Address needs to
>> take
>>> that user to her/his folder, w/o access to any other 
>> schools/folders.> Each school folder was chmoded (with the sticky 
>> bit on) to 700, and
>> each
>>> folder (home account) inside the school's folder is chmoded to 
>> 770 w/o
>>> sticky bit.
>>>
>>> This works ok with ssh, but that's it. I can't get FTP started 
>> (vsftpd> generates one error after the next) - tried nfs and samba 
>> shares, w/o
>>> much success either...
>>>
>>> If it was your setup, how would you configure it? Suggestions
>> welcomed!
>>> cheers
>>> Alan Hodson
>>> El Paso ISD,TX
>>> -=o=-
>>>
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