[K12OSN] Text-only sessions in K12

[James P. Kinney III]

I'm going to retract that SCREEN idea. It is a major security hole as it
open a root shell on the client with no password.

That said, it could still work by having a root user environment that
only calls a "fake login" than uses ssh to connect back to the server.
Basically an autorun script that asks for the username, feed that into
the ssh call and then they get a password prompt from the server in the
ssh session. Make the wrapper script a permanent loop and an autorestart
in .bashrc if they <ctl>-C it to death. You could also setup a generic
user user on the client and immediately have the root user su -
<fakeuser> and do the login stuff from there.
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 17:48 +0200, David Fourie (TSC) wrote:
> I tried that - I set SCREEN_01 = shell in lts.conf for that particular
> workstation, but it only opened and shell with no login, and therefore no
> access to file server or /home directories etc.
> 
> How do you set a user session to open a terminal text-only session ?
> 
> Regds
> DF
> 
> > If you set the option in lts.conf, you can have a local shell on the
> > client.
> >
> > You can also set the user session to open a full-screen terminal and log
> > out if it exits.
> > On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 08:08 +0200, David Fourie (TSC) wrote:
> >> Hi there
> >> I will definitely try this option of using a 'simple' window manager -
> >> about to download ratpoison right now!
> >>
> >> It also occurred to me yesterday while deliberating on this issue that
> >> an
> >> X session is at runlevel 5 while and terminal shells are at runlevel 3.
> >> Is it not possible to set a user's session to only startup in runlevel
> >> 3??
> >>
> >> thanks for the post.
> >>
> >> regds
> >> DF
> >> Solution Centre, SA
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I know this in not exactly what you are asking, but I was thinking
> >> maybe
> >> > just give them a VERY BASIC window manager.  the window manager
> >> ratpoison
> >> > (http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/) comes to mind.  This has the added
> >> > benefit of not locking the user(s) into a specific terminal.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Just adjust their $HOME/.xsession file to look something like:
> >> >
> >> >    # $HOME/.xsession startup script
> >> >    xterm &
> >> >    exec ratpoison
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> > On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:33:34 +0200 (SAST)
> >> > "David Fourie (TSC)" <k12 at bizmail.co.za> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi all
> >> >> Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but I have been unable
> >> to
> >> >> find anything in the lists or howtos...
> >> >>
> >> >> I am trying to get a K12 ver 6 environment to provide a text-only
> >> >> session
> >> >> for selected users - these users do not require any of the
> >> >> X-applications
> >> >> and would prefer to boot/login directly to a text session or the text
> >> >> application that we have provided for them.
> >> >>
> >> >> I tried (unsuccessfuly) to make custom changes for the specific MAC
> >> >> address in lts.conf using a line "SCREEN_01 = shell" - this booted
> >> into
> >> >> a
> >> >> shell, but no connection to any of the filesystems, so it was not
> >> >> useful.
> >> >>
> >>
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